The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 298, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 21, 1933 Page: 4 of 4
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The Lampasas Daily Lea tier
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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POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
The following announcements are
made subject to the action of the
city election to be held April 4, 1933:
For City Secretary, Assessor
and Tax Collector:
KYLE OLIVER (re-election)
For City Marshal:
W. A. (BUCK) CRAFT.
TO THE TAX PAYERS
It seems that my article- signed
“Taxpayer” has been misunderstood
by my good friend Roy L. Walker,
Chief attorney in Lampasas for the
Santa Fe'railroad, as I had and have
no intention of giving offense.
However, I trust that I may be par-
doned for stating that this sales tax
was presented to congress by Presi-
dent Hoover and no less personage
than our President-elect Franklin D.
Roosevelt expressed his disapproval
and horror at a tax that would ex-
empt the millionaires and place the
tax on people who were literally next
door to starvation.,
Now it may be that no one at the
banquet referred to had sufficient
intelligence to understand this sales
tax, but surely Franklin D. Roose-
velt and puV democratic congress
knew what they were doing when
they killed the sales tax.
I would like to ask two questions:
First, Who is the largest ad val-
orem tax payer in Lampasas County ?
Is it not the Santa Fe railroad?
Second, Who is the chief attorney
for said road in Lampasas?
I think this covers the case and
for the reason that I would rather
see the large corporations pay the ad
valorem tax than to place on the
people who are now the hardest pres-
sed. I shall continue to oppose the
sales tax.
Taxpayer.
ALLOTMENT PLAN WOULD
BE VETOED IF PASSED
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—Presi-
dent Hoover today dispelled all doubt
that a veto awaits the domestic al-
lotment farm relief bill if it reaches
the White House before March 4.
“It seems clear that the domestic
allotment plan is wholly unworkable,”
the chief executive said in a special
message to congress dealing with the
economic situation generally. “It
will do more harm than good to agri-
culure.”
At the same time the president de-
scribed as the “least harmful and the
most helpful” of all the farm plans,
the proposal made by Secretary Hyde
some time ago for temporary leas-
ing of marginal farm lands by the
government. The cost would be cov-
ered by a sales tax on farm com-
modities.
“It has the merit of direct action
in reducing supply to demand and
thus unquestionably increasing pri-
ces,” Hoover said of the Hyde plan.
“It would affect all farm products;
give equal benefits to all farmers; is
free of increased bureaucracy; very
much less costly; and could be cov-
ered by a manufacturers’ excise tax
of probably 1 per cent to 2 per cent
upon these commodities. It would
also largely eliminate the tax and
interest problems which the congress
is seeking to solve at fnuch greater
cost.” ■
Earlier in the day the allotment
bill formally was reported to the
senate by its agriculture committee
with a not very optimistic hope for
enactment at this session of congress.
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HOOVER SAf § FARM
PLAN IS UNWORKABLE
WASHINGTON, Feb. ^. — Presi-
dent Hoover, ir\ a special message to
congress sent unexpectedly, today
urged seven moves to promote “eco-
nomic recovery” and stated his op-
position to the domestic allotment
plan of farm relief as “wholly un-
workable.”
Some measures “looking to the
promotion of economic recovery,”
the president said, have been so far
advanced during the present session
“ as to seem possible of enactment”
before March 4. He listed them nu-
merically.
First in the list, (Hoover placed the
bankruptcy bill passed by the house,
saying its enactment is “of the most
critical importance in this period of
readjustment.”
Favors Treaty Ratification.
He urged also ratification of the
Great Lakes-St. Lawrence seaway
treaty, enactment by the house of
the general principles of the Glass
banking bill and authority for the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
“to increase the amount of loans to
states and municipalities for pur-
poses' of assistance to distress on the
same terms as the present act.”
After lashing out at the domestic
allotment plan, the president recom-
mended also repeal of the authority
under which the house may give pub-
licity to loans of the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation.
Saying the transaction should be
open to members of congress,Hoover
asserted, however, that publication of
the full list of loans had led to “wide-
spread, mostly innocent misinterpre-
tation, vicious in effect, by deposi-
tors and alarmists who do not recog-
nize that such borrowings represent
an endeavor of the service to their
respective communities.”
Says Fears Exaggerated.
“This publication,” he added, “is
destroying the usefulness and effec-
tiveness of the Reconstruction Cor-
poration, is exaggerating fears and is
introducing new elements of grave
danger. It is drying up the very
sources of [credit. The effect of such
publication is forcing payment by
distressed debtors to replenish bank
funds. It is causing the hoarding of
currency.”
NEGRO LYNCHED
IN LOUISIANA
RINGGOLD, La., Feb. 20.—Nelson
Nash, 24, negro, was lynched by a
group of 500 angry citizens here Sun-
day night, less than 11 hours after
he assertedly had beaten to death J.
P. Batchelor, 51, cashier of the Ring-
gold bank. Nelson was hanged from
the limb of a tree at the scene of the
killing.
About 75 .shots were fired into the
negro’s body.
The mob had forced Sheriff Hen-
derson Jordan of Bienville parish to
surrender the negro a few miles north
of Ringgold.
Sheriff T. R. Hughes of Caddo par-
ish had just obtained an admission
from the negro that he killed Batche-
lor and attempted to attack the bank-
er’s wife.
The Rev. P. B. McMillan, pastor of
the Ringgold Methodist church, to
whom the negro also had told the
story, pleaded with the mob all along
the route and at the scene of the
lynching to let the law take its
course.
■Batchelor and his wife were rout-
ed from their beds at their home here
at 4 a. m. Sunday by a negro who
forced them to go, while still in their
night clothing, to. the bank and open
the door. When Batchelor explained
that he could not open the safe, the
negro marched them more than a
mile north of town on the railroad
track, where he attempted the at-
tack on the banker’s wife.
Mrs. Batchelor fled through the
woods to the safety of a negro cabin,
while her husband fought with her
assailant.
A posse of citizens and peace offi-
cers took the negro into custody
shortly before noon and found in his
possession a gold watch believed to
have belonged to Batchelor.
Beaten With Revolver.
Batchelor was beaten over the head
with a revolver.
His wife spread the alarm and sev-
eral hundred citizens engaged in pur-
suit of the negro, who was captured
about 15 miles from the scene of the
slaying.
Batchelor is survived by his widow
and a son, who is a student in the
medical college of Baylor University.
WATER PITCHER IS
THROWN AT LAWYER
AUSTIN, Feb. 20.—Senator Walter
Woodward of Coleman struck J. F.
Hair, a San Antonio attorney, with a
water pitcher, during a hearing the
senate today on allegations that the
state highway department had mis-
handled some of the state road fund.
Hair, who was addressing the pres-
ident of the investigation committee
at the time, was knocked down by
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the finest, most carefully selected
tobaccos are chosen for Lucky
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tobaccos are “Toasted”— purified
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Luckies are made truly mild. For
these two reasons — Character
and Mildness—“Luckies Please!”
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the pitcher which was half filled with
water.
Woodward threw it at Hair from
the opposite side of the counsel table
the two being about six feet apart.
The San Antonio attorney received a
gash on his head and was taken to a
doctor’s office for treatment. He
struggled desperately to get to Wood-
ward after he received the blow. He
scrambled halfway across the table
trying to release himself from sev-
eral senators who were trying to re-
strain him. He tried to weild a chair
but was prevented from striking with
it.
Woodward resumed his place in the
hearing after order was restored and
the proceeding resumed.
The controversy arose over a com-
munication signed by Hair which had
been read and offered for a place in
the record. It was proposed for the
record by Senator Roy Sanderford of
Belton who had introduced Hair to
the committee on Saturday as an at-
torney Representing Bell county, in-
volved in the matters under investi-
gation.
The letter severely criticized ac-
tions* of the committee in promulgat-
ing a ruling that Hair could not in-
terrogate witnesses after he had at-
tempted to propound some questions
last Saturday. It accused the senate
committee of being inclined to “white-
wash” the highway commission of
any wrong doing.
Hair signed himself as a represen-
tative of all of 22 counties whose
highway construction funds were in-
volved in a transaction Gov. Miriam
A. Ferguson told the legislature in a
message had caused a loss of $1,000,-
000 to the state road fund through
mismanagement of the highway com-
mission.
paroles be discontinued, and its work,
as well as the general supervision of
the prison system, be placed in a
proposed department of public wel-
fare, which would control all elee-
mosynary, correctional and other
welfare institutions of the state; that
the parole system be revised; and
that plans be made gradually to erect
modern prison units at suitable lo-
cations.
TEAR GAS ROUTS PICKETS AS
MILK EMBARGO SPREADS
REPORT PRAISES MANAGE-
MENT OF PRISON SYSTEM
AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 20.—The
state should adopt a policy of pur-
chasing from the prison system and
eleemonsynary institutions all of the
requirements for supplies by its de-
partments, institutions and political
sub-divisions, which can be economi-
cally produced in those institutions,
recommends the joint legislative com-
mittee on organization and economy
in its latest report to the legislature,
released Monday by Representative
Harry N. Graves, chairman.
The i report covers the Texas prison
system and the board of pardons and
paroles, and constitutes Part VIII of
the committee’s complete report.
The report was prepared by Grif-
fenhagen and associates, specialists in
public administration and finance,
under the direction of the committee.
Other important recommendations
ai*e that the board of pardons and
FRANCE TO TALK DEBTS
WITH U. S. AFTER MARCH 4
PARIS, Feb. 20.—War debt nego-
tiations between France and the Uni-
ted States will be resumed after
Franklin D; Roosevelt has been in-
augurated president March 4, Foreign
Minister Joseph Paul-Boncour said
Monday.
M. Paul-Boncour did not explain
what form the new negotiations would
take, but it was indicated that the
approach would be made through the
usual diplomatic channels.
Last December France defaulted on
a debt installment of $19,261,432 af-
ter Premier Edourd Herriot, a strong
advocate of payment, had been over-
thrown. M. Paul-Boncour succeeded
him as Premier only to be overthrown
on internal finance measures, making
way for Edourd Daladier, the incum-
bent. In June 15 a debt installment
of $40,738,568 will become due the
United States.
In the interview the Foreign Min-
ister touched on several other inter-
national questions.
Concerning the Manchurian prob-
lem', he said France would stand by
the decisions of the League of Nations
and would act in full accord with the
United States and Great Britain. The
French position, he said, was based
on the several peace pacts and the
league covenant.
MILWAUKEE, Wis., Feb. 20.—
Around a dozen Eastern Wisconsin
cities and villages, camp fires of strik-
ing dairy farmers gleamed Monday
night beside highways leading to mar-
kets.
Encamped farmers were determined
after a day of disorders no milk
should be delivered for less than $1.40
per 100 pounds demanded by the Wis-
consin cooperative milk pool.
A tear gas attack on strikers in
Waukesha \County and spilling of
thousands of pounds of milk in the
Fox River valley were the high spots
of a day in which farmers succeed-
ed in diminishing sharply the flow
of milk to cheese factories, cream-
eries and condenseries.
Violence flared in four counties but
most seriously in Waukesha County,
just west of Milwaukee territory, for
which opposing fai’mers’ cooperatives
are disputing.
Cruising squads sent out by Sheriff
Arthur Moran had several encounters
with pickets blocking Waukesha Coun-
ty roads with’ropes and timbers. At
the outskirts of Milwaukee officers
tossed tear gas bombs among farm-
ers who had waylaid a truck and were
pouring milk into the snow. The
pickets scattered, but one, who offi-
cers said attacked them, was arrest-
ed. Three were arrested after a fight
in another part of the county and
late in the day another farmer was
taken prisoner.
Word of the arrest spread and in
the afternoon fifty | farmers surround-
ed the jail at Waukesha where they
were held.
The five, charged with rioting and
destruction of property, were released.
Meanwhile, Sheriff Moran ordered
more tear gas bombs, swore in more
deputies and announced violence
would be opposed vigorously.
THOMAS WATT GREGORY
IS ILL IN NEW YORK
NEW YORK, Feb. 20.—Thojnas
Watt Gregory, 72, attorney general
in President Wilson’s cabinet, is ill
of bronchial pneumonia and pleurisy
at the Hotel Pennsylvania. His con-
dition Monday was reported as slight-
ly improved.
No telephone calls were put thru
to Gregory’s room in the morning.
He is being attended by the Hotel
physician, whose secretary reported
on the patient’s condition.
Gregory came from his home at
Houston, Texas, to confer with Presi-
dent-elect Roosevelt. The conference
took place at th<e Roosevtelt town
house Saturday and at that time
Gregory was suffering from a cold.
Leader’s Job Printing Best—Try It!
EX-SLAVE WILL SEEK U. S.
LOAN ON BRAZOS FARM
THOMPSONS, Feb. 18.—W hen
crop loan officials, early next week,
begin taking applications for loans
for Fort Bend County farmers, War-
ren Hill Sr., 85, ex-slave, a resident
of the county for 56 years, will be
one of the first in line.
Hill will be asking for a $60 loan
to make a crop on his little 30-acre
Brazos bottom farm just because he
“can’t stand to have that good land
grow up!”
Born a slave in Rappahannock
County, Virginia, in 1847, Hill treas-
ures good1 earth with a real affection.
The land is clear of ,all debt, and it
represents more than half a century
of struggle against river floods,
drouths and storms.
“I’ve got plenty to eat, and I can
get along fine,” the old negro, his
face wrinkled with years and the ele-
ments, declared. “I’ve got my little
garden, my chickens, cows, pigs, and
there’s plenty to eat. I can live with-
out farming the 20 acres that’s in
cultivation, but I can’t stand to have
that good land grow up.”
Hill and his wife have had nine
children, seven of whom are alive.
The old negro hasn’t much time
for the present generation of his
race. “They’re a shiftless lot,” he
says. “They’ll work all right, but
they’re too extravagant. Negroes
that never had a horse or a wagon
have, got an old car and they’re on
the road.”
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MASS CONVENTION VOTING ON
LIQUOR ASKED RULED OUT
(Dallas News)
Executives of the United Forces for
Prohibition Sunday night telegraph-
ed Congressman Hatton W. Sumners
in Washington, urging that congress
provide a uniform method of forma-
tion for State constitutional conven-
tions to vote on the proposed repeal
of the prohibition amendment. Sign-
ers of the message were Dr. C. C.
Selecman, president of the United
Forces for Prohibition, and Dr. H. K.
Taylor, vice president, both of Dallas.
Text of the telegranii follows: “We
urge that congress prescribe a uni-
form method of forming State con-
stitutional conventions so that not by
mass convention but by direct vote
of the people delegates to the State
conventions shall be elected. This
will afford opportunity for all the
people to vote on the proposed re-
peal.”
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