The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 132, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 8, 1935 Page: 4 of 4
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The Lampasas Daily Leader
J. H. ABNEY & SON
Herbert J. Abney, Publisher
Entered at the postoffice at Lampasas
March 7, 1904, as second-class mail.
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DETECTIVE WHO TRACED KID-
NAPERS OF URSCHEL QUITS
PUBLIC ENEMY 10 YEARS AGO
WALKS FROM PENITENTIARY
Chicago, 111., Aug. 4.—Police and
prison guards Sunday scoured old
haunts of Henry (Midget) Femekes,
diminutive public enemy of a decade
ago, who walked out of Joliet peniten-
tiary in one of the most audacious es-
capades in its history Saturday.
They sought also a mystery wo-
man, who visited him a few days ago.
They suspected she might have had
some part in smuggling the civilian
clothes which Fernekes donned to
elude the warders.
Amazingly simple was the under-
sized killer’s exit from the old pris-
on. At 2 p. m. Saturday, an attend-
ant in the interview room was handed
a slip reading “Amenn, 4408” by a
small man in street garb wearing
black glasses. The attendant told the
pseudo visitor Amenn had been trans-
ferred to the new prison at Stateville.
Uttering not a word the pint-sized
39 year old convict turned away. The
attendant affably touching his cap,
pressing a buzzer signalling the en-
trance guard that a visitor was leav-
ing. Thus the Midget vanished.
Police believing he would hurry
here for money—some estimates run-
ning to a $100,000, safely cached—
and arms, watched homes of his
known associates closely.
They were prepared for a battle
to death for Fernekes was accused
in at least five slayings. Fernekes
never manipulated a machine gun but
his brace of pistols belched death just
as readily. -
Two police officers and three bank
officials were listed as his victims
before he was captured in 1924 and
sent to Joliet prison.
Fort Worth, Aug. 6.—J. W. Swin-
ney, ace detective of the city police
department, who played a big part in
capturing the gang of kidnapers who
abducted Charles F. Urschel, has an-
nounced his resignation.
Swinney and his partner, Detec-
tive Ed Weatherford, led government
agents in a raid on the Wise County
farm of R. G. Shannon where Ur-
schel, wealthy Oklahoma City oil man,
was held to await delivery of a $200,-
000 ransom. Harvey Ba,iley, convict-
ed as one of the kidnapers, was cap-
tured at the farm as he slept with a
machine gun at his side.
Swinney, who had been on the
police force since 1923 and a detec-
tive since 1926, gave no reason for
his resignation.
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STRIKING GARMENT WORK-
ERS CHASE NUDE WOMEN
THRU DALLAS STREET
POLICE SEEK H. C. HOPSON
IN WASHINGTON
TWO BOYS FOUND DEAD FROM
THIRST IN ARIZONA DESERT
POVERTY-STRICKEN PAIR
NEARING OKLAHOMA GOAL
AFTER LONG TREK
Phoenix, Ariz., Aug. 4.—Two small
boys, members of a group of five who
left a recreational camp in dissatis-
faction early last Wednesday, were
found dead near Cave Creek Dam
Saturday, victims of thirst, hunger
and exhaustion.
They were Tony Acosta, 12, and
Raymond Floreg-, 11, of Phoenix.
The bodies, emaciated from lack of
water and food, were found by Dep-
uty Sheriff William Levy within three
quarters of a mile of water. The
three others were rescued.
Shortly before the bodies were dis-
covered, another of the group, Leo
Coronado, 13, was found alive, but
suffering greatly from exhaustion in-
duced by 75 hours in the desert. He
was taken to a hospital here.
Edward Arce, 12, was found Thurs-
day and Ralph Romero, 13, was found
Friday.
WRONG INFANT TAKEN HOME
BUT HUSBAND FIXES IT
Coffeyville, Kan., Aug. 4.—Dr.
George T. Garrett and his wife, rid-
ing in a tumbledown covered wagon
powered with a shaggy burro, were
in the home stretch Sunday night.
It was just fourteen months and
twenty-four days ago that this pov-
erty-stricken couple, parents of eigh-
teen children, including three sets of
triplets, left Detroit. Their goal is
Pawhuska, Okla., sixty-five miles dis-
tant, where the doctor hopes to re-
habilitate himself on a vegetable
farm. He expects to reach Pawhus-
ka sometime this week barring bad
weather and mishaps.
The couple drew up to a camp site
ten miles from here for the night.
Dr. Garrett was tired but he men-
tioned a few items of history that
had transpired since he started the
westward trek.
“While the Nation has been dis-
cussing droughts, then floods, Roose-
velt and the AAA, we have been
pushing our nag toward Oklahoma,”
he reported. “We have^seen all kinds
of weather since leaving Detroit.
There has been many a hardship but
this week we hope to arrive in Paw-
huska.”
The trip has been financed by sale
of beaded ring^ along the route.
Dr. Garrett, a cripple, said he prac-
Baltimore, Md., Aug. 4.—There can
be no names in this story, because a
mother might be upset and a nurse
might lose her job, but what hap-
pened was this:
A child was born to Mrs. X and
an interne told the nervous father
that it was a girl.
In two weeks the mother was able
to leave the hospital with the child,
which she tucked happly away in the
nursery.
A few hours later the father learn-
ed to his dismay that the baby was
not a girl, as he had been told, but a
boy. Attached to the little wrist was
an identification tag, showing the
child belonged to another couple.
Unwilling to alarm his wife, he
slipped the child from the crib, re-
turned to the hospital, got his own
child—a girl for sure this time—re-
turned home and placed the infant
in the crib.
He strolled nonchalantly out to
greet his wife.
“John,” she said, “we’ve got the
best baby—not a whimper from her
all the time you were gone.”
The Parent-Teacher Association is
collecting cartons which contained
Adams Extracts and they ask that if
you will leave them at Key Bros, or
phone Mrs. N. B. Taylor or Mrs.
Harry Key they will Be collected. A
representative will be here in a short
time collecting the cartons and a cer-
tain number is required in order to
receive the bonus offered the club.
ticed medicine in St. Joseph, Mo., be-
fore the World war. He said he lost
a leg when a bomb exploded, killing
eighteen fellow workers.
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Dallas, Aug. 7.—Striking women
garment workers stripped four wo-
men, partly disrobed six others, chas-
ed them through the street spanking
and scratching them and injured six
persons, including four policemen, in
a renewal of rioting in connection
with a six-month-old walkout here
today.
Twenty-seven women- and three
men were arrested but the women
were released on bonds of $200 each
after four hours in jail. One of the
men was released on $600 bond. The
others were held without charges be-
ing placed. The police said the men,
who were identified as relatives of
the rioting women, probably would be
charged with inciting to riot.
Two of the women stripped were
not connected with the strike or a
dress plant in any way. The other
eight were employes of the Lorch
Manufacturing Company, in front of
which most of the rioting took place.
Other workers were attacked, al-
though not stripped, in fi’ont of the
Morten-Davis Company, two blocks
away.
The strikers, who have attacked
workers at these and other plants be-
fore, demand higher wages, shorter
hours and union recognition. The
strike began at the Morten-Davis
plant, but union workers were soon
called out of the 12 other Dallas dress
plants as well.
Today’s rioting came two days af-
ter the opening of the fall buying
season. The first of a series of style
shows for visiting buyers was planned
for tonight at the Dallas Country club,
and a large cordon of policemen were
to be thrown around the building in
anticipation of trouble.
After the 'rioting, John Radkin,
manager of the local union, declared
the strike would be “continued in one
form or another for the next six
months, if that is necessary to bring
a settlement between manufacturers
and employes.”
In releasing the 27 arrested women
at noon Police Chief Robert L. Jones
told them:
“You can carry on your strike and
we won’t bother you, but when you
cease to be ladies we will arrest you.
We won’t touch you so long as you
are peaceful, but the minute you
break a law, we’ll have the black
wagon there to get you.”
The women smiled and promised
they would cause no further dis-
turbance.
Forty policemen were required to
quell the rioting. Besides the four
officers injured, one had his coat
torn in two, and the windshields of
two squad cars were broken.
As a woman they believed to be
working at one of the plants came
along, one of the strikers would yell,
“There’s one—gang ’em!” And they
would surge forward.
“I had just gotten off a street car
to transfer,” said Miss Valera Mc-
Cormick, one of the two victims not
an employe of the dress plant. “Be-
fore I knew it they grabbed me and
tore my clothes to pieces. They threw
them in the street, and I had to run
three-quarters of a block before I
reached the Lorch plant.”
The company gave her a dress so
she could continue on to her place of
business, the United Motors Company.
Miss McCormick was angry and said
things had “come to a pretty pass”
when somebody not connected with
the strike was stripped and beaten
up.
Injured were: Policeman P. D.
Hale, bitten on the arm; Policeman
F. A. Alexander, severely kicked;
Detective Flay Nelson, bruised and
skinned legs; Police Sergt. L. T. Spen-
cer, scratched on face and arms; Miss
Nella Franklin, 35, badly wrenched
back; and Miss Jeannette Phillips, 26,
possible fractured shoulder.
Police guards remained outside the
plants after the rioting was over.
Shortly after the strike began six
months ago, strike headquarters said
a majority of the 1200 to 1500 wo-
men dressmakers employed by the 13
plants had walked out but represen-
tatives of the 13 factories declared
their records showed that only 51
workers failed to return to work the
next day after the general strike call.
None of the plants ever closed.
Today’s rioting came only two days
after the manufacturers had report-
ed the strike practically settled. They
said they had agreed to take all the
strikers back, except five or six they
described as “agitators” and leaders.
All the 13 plants were granted in-
junctions last spring against the strik-
ers, restraining them from attacking
workers or picketing except in a
peaceful manner. After that there
was llittle rioting Until today, al-
though the dress plants and stores
which sold their merchandise have
been picketed almost continuously.
Washington, Aug. 6.—The aid of
Washington police was sought today
by the house rules committee in its
effort to locate H. C. Hopson, dom-
inent figure in the Associated Gas
and Electric System, whose testimony
is wanted by two congressional in-
vestigating committees.
Impatient at delay in locating the
long-sought witness, wanted for ques-
tioning in the utility lobby investiga-
tion, the house committee gave a de-
scription of him to the police depart-
ment.
It took this action after a fruit-
less search was made at the Shore-
ham Hotel for Hopson by the house
and senate committees.
The search was started when the
house committee received testimony
from B. B. Robinson, Associated’s
Washington representative, that he
had talked with Hopson at the hotel
last night.
Herbert A. Bloomquist, chief sen-
ate investigator, and G. H. Taven-
ner, house committee investigator, ar-
rived at the hotel with a subpoena.
Hopson, however, apparently had
left. Hotel officials said he was not
registered as a guest and had not
been.
Pressed for more information as to
Hopson’s location this morning, Rob-
inson said he did not know and:
“If you want to know what I think,
I don’t think it makes any difference.”
Robinson said he went to the hotel
to “have some fun, as I had a few
minutes with nothing else to do.”
He added he thought the room Hop-
son occupied was on the fourth floor.
NEGRO DEATH CAR
DRIVER GIVES UP
Nacogdoches, Texas, Aug. 5.—J. C.
Forney, 25, negro driver of a truck
which killed four persons when it
ran headlong into a group of church-
goers and scattered them pellmell at
New Hope Sunday night, was held
in an unannounced jail Monday.
Forney fled to the wood after aban-
doning his car following the tragedy,
and w£"it to his home on the farm
of for: er Representative Phil San-
ders, w o turned him over to officers.
The Negro’s two companions were
not jailed.
The Negro said he was blinded by
dust - stirred by a passing car and
did not see the group on the highway
until too late. The victims were
Mrs. Newman Ellis, 20; Miss Jewell
King, 24, and C. E. Frederick, 25, of
New Hope, and Mrs. M. E. Parker,
63, of Houston. Several others were
injured.
RELIEF GROUP PROTESTS CUT
and urged workers to quit and join
in the protest. An unknown number
did.' Lester Wickliffe, county emerg-
ency relief administrator, said be-
tween 5500 and 6500 were employed
on relief jobs.
In addition to continuance of re-
lief on the former scale for the cur-
rent week with a future increase of
25 per cent until government works
progress administration projects open,
the 12-point program demanded free
milk for children, aged and ill per-
sons, ice for employes on relief proj-
ects and the right to organize “bona-
fide labor unions” on projects.
The relief workers also asked,
among other things, that the com-
missioners furnish food and beds to
the demonstrators at the courthouse.
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Higdon return-
ed Wednesday night from Dallas
where they have been buying mer-
chandise.
NEW BILL FOR CASH PAYING
OF BONUS OFFERED
Washington, Aug. 6.—A new cash
bonus bill, designed for consideration
at the next session of congress, was
introduced Tuesday by Senators
Byrnes, democrat, South Carolina, and
Steiwer, republican, Oregon.
It would provide not less than 96
per cent of the face value of the
adjusted service certificates in cash.
Earlier in the day democratic sen-
ate leaders had agreed to block ef-
forts to attach a bonus payment
amendment to the administration’s
tax bill. They decided the bonus is-
sue should go over until January.
The bill would move the maturity
date of the certificates forward from
1945 to 1938 and pay them in cash
with a slight discount.
It would be financed as other gov-
ernment obligations are, by the is-
suance of bonds.
Kansas City, Aug. 6.—Shouting
they would stay until their demands
were met, approximately 1,000 relief
workers swarmed through the Wyan-
dotte County courthouse tonight in
protest against a two-thirds cut in
work relief, payments and other
grievances.
County commissioners, meeting in
special session, refused all demands
in a 12-point petition today except
one asking free milk for children.
The commissioners agreed to consider
a request for a 25 per cent increase
in the poor fund ^tax levy.
The demonstrators were boisterous
but gave no indication of violence.
Nevertheless, police (re'setrves were
called out.
Groups of demonstrators toured
relief projects throughout the city
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WOMAN JAILED FOR
FAILING TO SUPPORT
HER EX-HUSBAND
East St. Louis, 111., Aug. 4.—Milan
Tatalovich Saturday caused his di-
voi’ced wife to be sent to jail be-
cause she did not support him.
Three months ago Tatalovich, 66,
appeared in county court, pleaded he
was unable to find work and asked
that his former wife be compelled to
support him under the Illinois papper-
relative law. The court ruled she
should pay $15 a month after Tatalo-
vich testified property formerly joint-
ly owned by his wife and himself
had been conveyed to their children.
Saturday a grocer came to court
and asserted he had received no pay-
ments.
The court held her in contempt and
sentenced her to 30 days in the Belle-
ville jail.
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NUDE BATHING LEGAL
AT CORPUS CHRISTI
II P. M. TO 4 A. M.
Miss Charlotte Joiner of Wichita
Falls is visiting here in the home of
her sister, Mrs. Fritz Holman.
Daily Leader 3 Months for $1.00
Cjorpus Christi, Aug. 4.—Nude
bathing at night is legal in Corpus
Christi, too, and you can swim with-
out a proper bathing dress from 11
p. m. to 4 a. m. if you want to, ac-
cording to ordinance passed by the
city fathers in 1874.
The lodal ordinances ^are la bit
less liberal than the one recently
disclosed in Kansas City which per-
mits bathing in the nude between one
hour after sunset and one hour before
sunrise.
Information has not been disclosed
as to whether or not advantage is
taken of the freedom granted local
citizens and visitors under the old
ordinance.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
On last Sunday, Aug. 4, the con-
gregation of my church gave me a
leave of absence from the pulpit for
the remainder of the month of Aug-
ust. Due to previous arrangements
for a Cooperative Revival beginning
August 18, I will only be absent
from the pulpit two Sundays, the
second and the third. I trust that
the full strength of the church will
be given to the support of the Sun-
day school at the regular hour of
meeting each Sunday 9:45 a. m.
...........” E. C; Lambert, minister.
Gordon Mackey of Temple was a
visitor in Larppasas, Thursday.
“Two Weeks of rest
and fun! But not
hearing the news
from hom e— I’ll
miss that!”
“M i s s, nothing!
We’re going to get
The Daily Leader
every day!”
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