The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 292, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 14, 1933 Page: 4 of 4
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The Lampasas Daily Leader
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Entered at the postoffice at Lampasas
March 7, 1904, as second-class mail
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KIDNAPERS DEMAND $60,000
DENVER, —Colo., Feb. 11.—Dis-
traught relatives of Charles Boett-
cher II, kidnaped Denver broker, took
the first steps Monday to comply
with demands for payment of $60,-
000 ransom for his release, while po-
lice sought Louis (Diamond Jack) Al-
terie, former Chicago gangster, for
questioning.
A few hours1 before Chief of Police
A. T. Clark announced he was hunt-
ing Alterie and two unidentified men,
Claude K. Boettcher, multimillionaire
father of the missing 31-year-old heir,
inserted in Denver newspapers a per-
sonal advertisement stating, “Please
write, I am ready to return. Mabel.”
Boettcher, warm friend of Col.
Charles A. Lindbergh, was kidnaped
Sunday night by two men who ac-
costed him and his wife as they drove
into the driveway of the Boettchers’
palatial home. Boettcher was forced
into the kidnapers’ car and whisked
away'after one of the men thrust in-
to Mrs. Boettcher’s hand a note de-
manding $60,000 ransom.
Although authorities guarded the
contents of the note, written on plain
white paper, it was reported as stat-
ing:
“Don’t notify police. Tell Claude
Boettcher he had better get $60,000
ransom. Follow instructions. Re-
member the Lindbergh baby would
still be alive if ransom had been
paid. Notify us through a personal
ad stating, ‘Please write, I am ready
to return. Mabel’.”
Insertion of the advertisement was
taken to mean the family intended to
meet any demands of the kidnapers.
Mrs. Mollison McCormick, mother of
the broker, said in Kansas City Boett-
cher’s wife had informed her by tele-
phone that she intended carrying out
the kidnapers’ instructions.
The elder Boettcher posted a $5,000
reward for the safe return of his
son.
ABOLITION OF EIGHT
COLLEGES ASKED IN BILL
AUSTIN, Feb. 10.—Abolition of
eight units of the state’s educational
system is proposed in a bill submitted
in the senate today by Senator Poage
of Waco. The measure follows close-
ly the recommendations of the legis-
lative committee on organization and
economy. It would become effective
August 31, 1933.
Institutions named in Poage’s bill
are:
John Tarleton Agricultural College,
Stephenville; North Texas Junior
Agricultural and Mechanical College,
Arlington; College of Mines, El Paso;
North Texas Teachers College, San
Marcos; Texas College of Arts and In-
dustries, Kingsville; Sul Ross Teach-
ers College, Alpine; Stephen F. Aus-
tin Teachers College, Nacogdoches.
With exception of provisions for
consolidation of the North Texas
Teachers College and the College of
Industrial Arts at Denton, the bill
prescribed that libraries and other
equipment of the remaining seven be
turned over to the board of regents
of the several teachers colleges left
untouched, while buildings and
grounds are turned over to the state
board of control for such use as best
fits needs of the state.
“In( drafting the bill,” said Poage,”
I had in mind the great need of the
state for additional buildings in our
eleemosynary institutions and I be-
lieve the board of control can make
excellent use of these old college
buildings, particularly in the case of
the insane. Our'asylums are woeful-
ly overcrowded at present. Our jails
are filling up again with insane per-
sons who ought to be taken care of.”
BILL WOULD GRANT
LAST SIGHT OF SUN TO
CONDEMNED MEN
AUSTIN, Feb. 10.—A few more
hours of life and a last sight of the
sun would be accorded men condemn-
ed to death, under terms of a bill
offered in the house today by Repre-
sentative Golson of Coleman. His
bill, among other things, fixed the
time for execution at “after 11 a. m.
and before sunset.”
The custom now is to carry out
electrocutions at the earliest possible
moment of the day fixed—soon after
midnight.
Another bill, by Fuch of Brenham,
provides that the death penalty shall
be imposed for a second conviction
of armed robbery—regardless of
whether the first conviction was re-
turned in Texas or elsewhere.
RETURN Of GOLD STANBARO
URGED FOR WORLD HEtlRF
NEW YORK, Feb. 13.—Sounding a
rallying call to the republican party
to support the new administration in
all constructive measures, President
Hoover Monday night coupled with
this a warning that the world is
threatened with an incipient outbreak
of economic war.
The president asserted the pi’even-
tive for such an outbreak “can only
be found now and found quickly thru
the re-establishment of gold stand-
ards among important nations.”
He urged bold action and indicated
a feeling that a swap on war debts
might be acceptable to gain this end.
Delivering the final address of his
administration at a Lincoln Day din-
ner of the national republican club
in the Waldorf Astoria hotel, the
chief executive said he desired to
speak of matters upon which there
-hould be no partisanship.
First, however, speaking as the
titular head of the republican party,
he forecast that “it will be recalled
to power by the American people.”
He 'pointed to the 15,000,000 repub-
ican votes in the last election despite
“the reaction from the worst depres-
sion the world has ever seen” and
added that “one of the < sure guaran-
tees that this will be so” was the
support given by the youth of the
country. The party, he said, must
look to them.
“The people determined the elec-
tion,” he said. “Those of us who be-
lieve in the most basic principle in-
sisted on by Abraham Lincoln—the
transcendent importance of popular
government—have no complaint. We
accept and, as Americans, will con-
tinue whole-heartedly to do our part
in promoting the well-being of the
country. Our party can truly feel
that we have held the faith; that we
shall do so in the future is our solemn
responsibility.
“It has ever been the party of con-
structive action. The republican par-
ty will support the new administra-
tion in every measure which will pro-
mote public welfare. It must and will
be vigilant in opposing those which
are harmful.”
EIGHTEEN MUTINEERS
KILLED BY BOMB
BATAVIA, Java, Feb. 10.—Eigh-
teen men were killed ant 25 injured
by a 100-pound airplane bomb which
put an end today to the five-day
mutiny of the native crew of the
Dutch cruiser De Zeven Provincien.
Three Europeans and 15 Javanese
natives were killed by the bomb and
one Dutch officer and a young Dutch
sailor were slightly wounded. The
brief engagement, in which the mu-
tineers made no use of the 16 heavy
guns with which their vessel was
armed, took place at dawn off the
Southwest Sumatra coast, 400 miles
northwest of Batavia. ,
The rebels, who had risen in a dem-
onstration against pay cuts, replied
“Don’t hinder us” when the command-
,er of the pursuit ordered them to
surrender unconditionally in 10 min-
utes.
When that period of grace was
over, a warning bomb was dropped
alongside the cruiser. Still the mu-
tineers failed to signal of capitulation
stipulated by the pursuers. Imme-
diately one of the planes in the at-
tack fleet dropped a bomb on the deck.
Fire started aboard the cruiser and
some of the natives went over the
side into lifeboats. Others signaled
surrender.
The fire did little damage and soon
the master of the cruiser, who had
been left ashore when the mutineers
took her over, went aboard his com-
mand. The warship had orders to
come to Batavia.
DALLAS BUILDING MANAGER,
SHOT BY ATTORNEY, DIES
DALLAS, Feb. 13.—Justin Stein,
54, died in a hospital today of gun-
shot wounds inflicted by Noah Roark,
prominent Dallas attorney in a down-
town office, building Friday. Roark
collapsed in his jail cell upon learn-
ing of Stein’s death. He was taken
to the hospital ward. Robert Hurt,
district attorney, asked_that the phy-
sician keep Roark under close obser-
vation.
Roark was formally charged with
murder during the morning. Shortly
after Stein and his secretary, Arthur
B. Strauch, were shot in Stein’s office,
Roark surrendered to a deputy sheriff
and was charged with assault with
intent to murder.
Hospital physicians said that
Strauch would recover. He was shot
through the shoulder.
William McCraw, former district
attorney, said he would waive pre-
liminary hearing for his client.
“The man is unquestionably in-
sane,” McCraw said, “and we there-
fore are not interested in an exam-
ining trial or any other means of
obtaining his release on bond.”
An investigation revealed that
Roark was offended at persistent ef-
forts to induce him to move from the
Fidelity Building, of which Stein was
manager.
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JAPANESE EMPEROR
APPROVES ADAMANT
MANCIIUKUO POLICY
TOKIO, Japan, Feb. 13.—A break
between Japan and the League of
Nations became imminent Monday as
the result of a message to the league
in which the government declared it-
self adamant in maintaining the in-
dependence of the State of Manchu-
kuo.
This message was approved by the
cabinet and by the Emperor himself.
It was in reply to an inquiry from
the league concerning Japan’s atti-
tude toward discontinuing the Man-
chukuo government.
The State of Manchukuo was set
up with the assistance of the Japan-
ese army after the Chinese had been
expelled from, Manchuria. In all offi-
cial quarters, Japan’s reply to the
league was interpreted ^s marking
the end of conciliation in the Man-
churian dispute and putting Japan
on the verge of withdrawal or ex-
communication from the league.
Withdrawal Predicted.
A foreign office spokesman, com-
menting on the settlement recom-
mendations which have been drawn
up in Geneva and which call for a
commission of the powers, including
the United States and Russia, to di-
rect negotiations between China and
Japan, asserted that he believed To-
kio’s withdrawal from the league was
a foregone conclusion.
The league crisis resulted in a
heavy1 slump in the Tokio Stock Ex-
change. The public was fearfulthat
Japan was to be evicted from the
society of nations.
The foreign office spokesman said
he believed that a secret understand-
ing had been arrived at by the Uni-
ted States, China and Soviet Russia.
“I am confident such an alliance
(between China and Russia) will be
sprung on the world sooner or later.”
REPORT OPPOSED BY
A. & M. DIRECTORS
COLLEGE STATION, Feb. 13.—
Declaring that criticisms made of
Texas A. & M. College by a joint leg-
islative committee was at vai'iance
with the! facts, the board of directors
of the college Monday had extended
members of the legislature an invita-
tion to make a personal investigation.
The board of directors denied the
charge made by the legislative com-
mittee that the accounting system
used by A. & M. was inadequate.
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SUPREME COURT TO RECESS
SO AS TO PARTICIPATE IN
ROOSEVELT INAUGURAL
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—A long
list of appeals from court decisions
was denied review Monday by the
Supreme Court, including one grow-
ing out of a great marine disaster
of fifteen years ago.
The court refused to review a low-
er court decision under which rela-
tives of two hundred passengers lost
on the steamer Princess Sophia of the
Canadian Pacific Line, which went
down with all hands on the way south
from Skagway, Alaska, October 25,
1918, were barred from collecting
damages.
The ship sank: with 294 passengers
and sixty-one crew after striking a
reef. An American Commissioner who
took evidence, assessed damages to-
taling $2,095,000 for the Americans
aboard, but the courts disallowed all
but thirteen awards and granted the
company a lisitation of liability.
Try a Want Ad in The Daily Leader.
AIRPLANE STUNT MEN
ATTEMPT TO OUTCLASS
OTHER, ONE IS KILLED
zLOS ANGELES, Cal., Feb. 13.—Two
airplane stunt men, each eager to out-
do the other, leaped from an airplane
10,000 feet above Los Angeles East-
side Airport Sunday. Each carried
two parachutes.
After coasting awhile with one
open, they cut loose and plummeted
toward thq ground. " The idea was to
see which man could come nearer the
earth before opening his second
’chute.
When Spud Manning was about
1,800 feet from the ground, he opened
his ’chute and floated down safely.
But Harold H. (Bud) Bradon, whiz-
zed on down and spectators grew
tense. About 100 feet from the
ground his ’chute opened.
It was too late. Bradon was killed
as he hit the ground.
FORMER TEXAS JUSTICE
FREED IN CALIFORNIA
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Feb. 13.—
Edward D. Edwards, 62, former Jus-
tice ofthe Peace at Point Isabel, Tex-
as, who surrendered here as a fugi-
tive from justice, was released from
prison Monday. He said he probably
would return to Corpus Christi.
He was freed when Texas authori-
ties said they did nob want to prose-
cute the former justice, who was con-
victed on a murder charge eight
years ago.
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$22,000,000 IS VOTED
TO OPEN ARMY CAMPS
TO HOMELESS YOUTHS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—The sen-
ate today added $22,000,000 to the
army appropriation bill to open citi-
zens’ military training camps to ap-
proximately 88,000 jobless and home-
less youths.
The action was taken without a
roll call after Senator Couzens, re-
publican, Michigan, modified his orig-
inal proposal and substituted the citi-
zens’ camp idea at the request of
Senator Rfsed, republican, Pennsyl-
vania.
The Michigan senator’s first plan
was to suspend the rules to permit
consideration of an amendment to
the bill throwing open regular army
posts to the thousands of youths
roaming the land without homes or
jobs.
Serious objections from both sides
of the chamber led Couzens to substi-
tute the Reed plan and it went thru
without a word of debate.
Under the plan adopted, the youths
would enter citizens training camps
that would run for 12 months and
would be subject to all the training
and discipline of a regular army post.
To gain entry to such a camp the
youth must be between 15 and 21
and jobless for at least six months.
The $370,000,000 army appropria-
tion bill was passed by the senate
and sent back to the house for action
on amendments.
BOWERY BUMS AND JOBLESS
BOND SALESMEN SHOVEL SNOW
FROM STREETS OF NEW YORK
NEW YORK, Feb. 12.—Men in
Chesterfield coats and in suits just
beginning to grow frayed worked
shoulder to shoulder Saturday with
bums from Bowery flophouses, as
18,000 unemployed men started clean-
ing snow from Gotham streets.
It looks like a six-day job to sani-
tation department officials, which
means nature has tossed into the laps
of the jobless a major unemployment
relief project.
$18,000 men are getting $6 a day.
The storm that piled eight inches
of snow in the caverns of Wall street
and in the East Side ghetto alike, will
probably cost the city well over $1,-
500,000, of which about half will go
to the jobless shovelers.
It was long before dawn, while the
blanket of white still was growing
thicker by the hour, that lines began
to form outside 225 sanitation de-
partment stations.
They came from shanties of the
homeless, from chilly homes of desti-
tute families, from flophouses in the
Bowery. But this parade was far
different fi'om those that formed on
snowy days in other years.
Only a small percentage was made
up of professional down-and-outers.
There was many a man who looked
as if he might have been a Wall
street clerk or bond salesman not so
long ago.
It was first-come-to-get-the-shovels
at the 225 stations.
Some of the lines stretched for
blocks and police control was re-
quired,
Racketeers soon entered the pic-
ture. Those well up in the lines in
many cases sold their places for a
dime or a quarter, but police event-
ually put a stop to the profiteering
in “position.”
By 6 a. m. there were 1500 men
waiting in front of the station in
Oliver street, down where former
Governor Alfred E. Smith was born.
But there were only 150 jobs, and
1350 went away disappointed.
When 1200 men for whom there
was no work were turned away from
a Brooklyn station, a melee ensued
during which the men paraded thru
the streets shouting: “We want work”
and “give us shovels.”
A plate glass window was broken
and a police emergency squad was
required to disperse the crowd.
But the 18,000 fortunte men had
jobs—some of them for the first time
in months—and judging by the
mounds of snow still in the streets
Saturday night, those jobs will be
good for nearly a week.
Leader’s Job Printring Best—Try It!
PREACHING THE TRADE
AT HOME GOSPEL
(Hamilton Herald-Record)
A traveling salesman for a Texas
State wholesale paper concern visit-
ing the Herald-Record office recently,
stated that the commissioners court
in Bell county had informed out-of-
county printers that they need not
bid on Bell county printing, that if
the county government was good
enough for the printers of Bell coun-
ty, the printing done by Bell county
printers was good enough for Bell
county.
In short, Bell county printers were
regarded as tax payers paying their
share of all costs of county govern-
ment, and therefore entitled to any
business the tax money could supply.
It is an attitude that citizens need
to get about everything sold in the
county either to the government or
its< citizens. The man selling it pays
county taxes. Keeping county money
at home makes county tax paying
easier, makes everybody’s business
better.
For Real Job Printing—The Leader!
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