The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 281, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 1, 1933 Page: 4 of 4
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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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BLIZZARD SNAPS ELECTRIC
WIRES, DARKENING RENO
RENO, Nev.,NJan, 29.—Reno, which
laid claim recently to being the big-
gest little city in the west, was the
darkest city in the west Saturday
night, with all electrical power cut
off, and only limited service was be-
ing received Sunday.
Workers on snowshoes and skis
were striving to repair broken trans-
mission lines high in the Sierras,
hampered by a new storm sweeping
the Rockies.
The break occurred somewhere in
the vicinity of Cisco, Cal., on the west
Donner summit during a blizzard.
Reno was without light or power all
day Saturday and Saturday night.
Candles, kerosene lamps and gas
lights were utilized.
Telegraph companies used a gaso-
line engine to provide power to send
messages. Newspapers were unable
to issue editions. Telephone com-
munication within the city was made
possible by an emergency plan. Auto-
mobile headlights supplied the only
illumination on the streets.
HOW TEXANS VOTED
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—By a
vote of 174 to 165, the house Satur-
day adopted the amendment by Rep-
resentative Tarver of Georgia to the
prohibition enforcement item of the
annual appropriation bill for the
state, justice and labor departments
which would deny us of any of the
Federal enforcement funds for pur-
chasing liquor as evidence, the pay of
informers or for purchase of any
other evidence. Roll call on the pro-
vision was demanded by Representa-
tive Blanton of the Abilene district.
Texas members vqted as follows:
For the Tarver amendment: Buch-
anan, Dies, Cross, Kleberg, Mansfield
and Thomason.
Against the Tarver amendment:
Blanton, Briggs, Johnson, Jones, Lan-
ham, Patman, Rayburn, Sanders and
Sumners.
Not voting: Williams.
Leader’s Job Printing Best—Try Itl
BANK BANDITS DISARM POSSE
now it..
Chesterfields are
Milder
'V¥7’HEN you ask a Chesterfield
▼ Y smoker why that’s his brand — he
generally comes right out flat-footed and
says .. .“It’s because They’re Milder/”
So we’re going to keep on doing
everything we know how to keep them
that way.
That’s why we look for and buy the
mildest and ripest tobaccos we can get.
That’s why we age them in our ware-
houses till they’re mellow and sweet.
We believe that even the shredding
of the tobacco... and the quality of the
paper it’s rolled in, have a lot to do
with the even-drawing, mild smoke that
people enjoy in Chesterfields.
You can bank on this... every method
known to‘science is used to make Chest-
erfield a milder, better-tasting cigarette
that satisfies.
Chesterfield Radio Program—Every night ex-
cept Sunday, Columbia coast-to-coast Network.
THEY’RE MILDER-
THEY TASTE BETTER
© 1933, Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co.
esterlie
field
KANSAS CITY, Jan. 29.—A crest
fallen posse reported Saturday it had
been captured and disarmed by three
men it pursued along .various high-
ways after the trio had wounded the
North Kansas City marshal and es-
caped with approximately $14,000
carried by a bank messenger he was
guarding.
The six men said they suddenly
came upon the three robbers mending
a tire near Holt, Mo. A pitched bat-
tle followed. Members of the posse
reported they were fired upon by two
machine guns.
The trio of robbers, one wounded,
overcame their pursuers, gathered up
an arm load of revolvers and shot-
guns and escaped in one^of three cars
in which the citizens had overhauled
them. One of the six possemen was
used as a shield as the robbers took
up their flight. He soon was re-
leased. • '
The robbers obtained the money in
a sidewalk holdup of Mrs. Dorothy
Jolly, bookkeeper for the National
Bank and Trust company, and Mar-
shal Edgar Nall, who was guarding
her in transfer of the currency to
the post office.
Nall was shot when he drew a re-
volver.
OKLAHOMA QUITS
CAMP OF POLITICIAN
WHO GOT MANICURE
OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan. 331.—The
Oklahoma senate has learned why
Senator Grover Thomas of Clinton
supported Senator Paul Stewart,
president pro tempore, and his fac-
tion in organization of the body.
It was beacuse he didn’t like to
see a big strong man getting a mani-
cure, Thomas told the senate yester-
day at the request of Senator Allen
G. Nichols of Wewoka, who was slat-
ed for chairmanship of the appropria-
tions committee by the group which
opposed Stewart. Nichols asked why
Thomas went over to the Stewart
forces.
“I was undecided until I saw the
man slated by the other forces for
chairman of the appropriations com-
mittee in the basement of the Huc-
kins Hotel getting a manicure,” re-
plied Thomas.
For Real Job Printing—The Leader!
TO THE PUBLIC
Word keeps coming to me and the
state highway boys at work in this
county that we, J. Tom Higgins, the
state and both or some one else are
holding out part of your pay. There
is not a word of truth in any such
statement.
Before we got the money to make
this deal I asked a number of people'
that would be laborers on this work
if they would be willing for me to
hold out ten per cent of their pay,
if it took that to get money to buy
the right of way and pay the dam-
ages, etc. All that I talked to said
go ahead and do so. That they would
be willing to so contribute. We got
the money without that method and
did not have to" have it that way, so
that was all there was to that part
of it.
Still the word keeps being circulat-
ed around over the county that the
county or state was holding out part
of the pay of the employes. A little
color is loaned to that assertion by
the fact that the boys working in
Hamilton and Coryell counties were
paid thirty cents per hour for their
labor.
The truth is that those counties do
not belong in this road district which
is district No. Fourteen. Mr. D. E.
H. Manigault who is division engi-
neer of this district No. 14 told me in
a conversation about this price mat-
ter that his whole district was under
a twenty-five cent per hour basis and
this county is one of his districts.
Now that is the reason we get the
25c pay instead of the 30c pay. Some
districts have differing prices depend-
ing upon wage conditions as have been
determined in some manner that I do
not know about, by the highway de-
partment. Ours happened to be 25c
per hour for common laborers. Team
and men wages driving 4-ups run
$6.00 per day for the full eight-hour
work.
I am making this explanation so
that the people of the county that
have been hearing the criticisms
heaped upon the county and state
may know the truth, also there is
another thing I mean to tell the peo-
ple on the work and that is just sim-
ply a blunt statement.
If you are not satisfied with your
work and the pay you are getting the
quicker you get off the job the better
off you will feel about the matter for
if you are just going around and
“squawking” at us people who are
working our “gizzards” out for your
benefit you are going to take a long
waiting job for more work the first
minute you can be found out over
your “croak.”
I do not want the state nor county
to keep any man at work for them
who has nothing but a fuss over their
pay. We cannot help most of the
trouble we are having in various
lines. Besides the boys that want to
work and be glad of the job are go-
ing to get the “sour doughs” places.
I am not guessing at this matter. I
am not hiring this labor but I have
it from good authority from those
who are that this will be the policy
and I mean, to help enforce it.
Lots of people are offering their
teams at cheaper prices, lots of men
are offering their labor at away low-
er prices and all of them are Lam-
pasas County citizens who need the
work.
Personally, I am going after every
single thing that is coming to any
man in this county that is fair and
right, further than that you need not
ask"'me for I am not gqing one-hair
breadth. Most of you laborers are
faithful, good men and appreciate the
favors offered you and it now be-
comes your duty to help us hunt out
the propagandists. If you think you
are not getting a square deal we will
be only too glad to listen and help
all that we can.
We have come to the conclusion
that it is unfair to the state as well
as the county to allow the matter
rest to the effect that we or any of us
are holding your pay or any part of
it. We could not do that without you
assigning it to us. The checks all
come from the state. This district
carries some 13 counties and all their
pay is on the same basis as Lam-
pasas.
Now, we have arrived at the place
that we must give out the real truth
or stand in a position of a criminal
who refuses to deny a charge made
against him. The county and state
are helping you people or have the
pride that they are, and to be called
criminals for the help is a little too
much. At first I thought it too in-
significant to answer but it seems the
charges repeat and grow larger. The
county does not need this money, and
the state would scorn to take it from
you laborers.
Yours very truly,
J. Tom Higgins, Co. Judge.
Lampasas, Feb. 1-33.
Editors Note—In conversation with
Judge Higgins, he informs us that
Lampasas has spent about one-third
of the money allotted to this road,
and has completed more than one-
third of the work, except the bridges.
GETTING HIGHWAY 66
THROUGH ERATH COUNTY
(Stephenville Empire-Tribune)
A statement from district engineer
Wellborne, made to this newspaper
Friday of last week, confirms the
rumor that the location of Highway
66 through Erath county has been
made. Just where the road is to be
located is of course, not known to
the public as yet, but with field notes
and deeds for the right-of-way now
being drawn the actual location
should be known by everyone within
a comparatively short while. The
highway will pass through Stephen-
ville, coming here from a point be-
low Clairette, and will go north to
the Morgan Mill vicinity and thence
to Lipan and the Parker county line.
With the completion of the deeds
and field notes, the problem of se-
curing the right-of-way will be the
next part of the program. Not know-
ing where the road is to go means
that propei-ty owners are not yet
ready to commit themselves on the
matter of donating the land for the
highway. Generally speaking, it
seems safe to say, however, that there
will be little trouble experienced in
securing the right-of-way. When fin-
ally completed Highway No. 66 will
be one of the best paved roads in
Texas.
The*highway department is at this
time completing a big program on
No. 66 in Hamilton county, having al-
ready spent about $200,000 in that
county. It is presumed the same line
of improvement will be made in this
county.
CAPONE CONTINUES
TO SEEK RELEASE
ATLANTA, Ga., Jan. 31.—A1 Ca-
pone, former ”Chicago gangster, car-
ried his fight for-freedom from the
Atlanta penitentiary to the United
States Circuit Court of Appeals.
Attorneys for the former Chicago
public enemy No. 1 were granted an
application to Federal District Judge
E. Marvin Underwood for an appeal
was entered in the Circuit Court of
Appeals immediately.
Capone is serving a ten years’ sen-
tence for violation of the Federal in-
come tax laws in 1926, 1927 and 1928.
He entered the penitentiary here , last
May.
His petition for a writ of habeas
corpus alleged the statute of limita-
tions had run before he was charged
with the offense for which he was
convicted.
$1,500 FINE IS ASSESSED
IN INCOME TAX SUIT
AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 31.—A plea
of guilty to an indictment charging
evasion of income taxes was made
Monday by Cam E. Hill, former Coun-
ty Clerk of Hidalgo County, before
Judge R. J. McMillan of the Uni-
ted States District Court.
A fine of $1,500 and a suspended
sentence of eighteen months were giv-
en Hill. A condition of the suspend-
ed sentence was the payment of the
fine.
Hill was the fourth resident of the
Rio Grande Valley convicted on in-
come tax evasion charges in the last
few days.
TWO DOZEN EGGS COST $5.00
(Temple Telegram)
Sharp traders who called on Avie
Crawford at his farm home three
miles east of Troy got the worst of
their own bargain.
The two men driving a car with
an out-of-county license sought to
sell Mr. Crawford some mail order
groceries but he was politely not in-
terested. Then they said that eggs
were high in Fort Worth where they
lived and would like to buy two doz-
en for 15 cents.
He sold the eggs and they offered
$5 in legal tender. He lacked the
change and the strangers said they
would take his check for the $4.85
change.. He gave the check but after
they left he telephoned his bank in
Troy that he had given the $4.85
check to two strangers.
When the check appeared at the
bank in a few minutes it had been
altered to read $64.85. Mr. Crawford
had not written “exactly $4.85” and
the strangers put in a six.
But the banker did not cash the
check and the men hurried off with-
out it. Their two dozen eggs thus
cost them $5.
NINE CENTS POSTAGE
REQUIRED TO SETTLE
TWO-CENT BANK CLAIM
SILVERTON, Ore., Jan. 29.—A
statement for taxes on a safety de-
posit box at a defunct bank here in-
formed Dr. A. J. McCannell he owed
2c. Dr. McCannel made out a check
on a Minot, N. D., bank for 2c and
mailed to the receiver with a letter
saying:
“I am hurrying to pay lest the de-
positors of the bank be put to any
more expense in its collection. I note
it has already cost them 3c in post-
age. I am inclosing my check for
payment of this bill and request that
you send me a receipt for it.” |
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