The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 31, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 11, 1934 Page: 4 of 4
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The Lampasas Daily Leader
J. H. ABNEY & SON
Herbert J. Abney, Publisher
Entered at the poatoffice at Lampasas
March 7, 1904, as second-class mail.
THE LAMPASAS DAILY LEADER
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POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Leader is authorized to make
the following political announcements,
subject to the primary election in
July:
For Sheriff, Asisr. & Tax Collector:
A. R. HARVEY (re-election)
JNO. B. DAVIS.
FRED MASON.
R. E. (Bob) POOLE
J. B. (Barney) PRESTON.
For County Judge:
J. J. MONTGOMERY.
J. C. ABNEY.
For District Attorney:
JIM K. EVETTS, of fcelton.
HENRY TAYLOR (re-election).
For County Treasurer:
MRS. HARRY EASTERS.
MRS. JOHN B. TAYLOR.
For Commissioner, Precinct No. 1:
HOSEA BAILEY (re-election).
I. N. HART
AARON (Pete) CUMMINS.
For Public Weigher in Lampasas:
R. E. (Bob) LANDRUM.
For District Clerk:
S. A. WORD (re-election)
For County Attorney:
J. J. BYRNE.
J. SYLVESTER LEWIS.
MEETING OF UDC
Mrs. J. R. Key was hostess to the
Mildred Lee Chapter of the UDC, Fri-
day afternoon, April 6.
Mrs. R. S. Mills, the president,
pi’esided during the business session. j
Mrs. W. R. Williamson led the open-
ing prayer. Eight members respond-
ed* to roll call with the names of out-
standing Texas heroes.
At the close of the business ses-
sion Mrs. Key, leader for the after-
noon, 'read a very interesting papei
on how George Kern, a Kentucky
hero, escaped from prison.
A tribute to Sidney Lanier was
given by Mrs.; W. R- Williamson.
Highlights in the lives of some of
Texas’ military officers were then
given. Mrs. T. B. Harwell mention-
ed Brigadier General Hamilton Bee.
Maj. General Samuel Maxey Bell was
mentioned by Mrs. W. H. Browning.
Mrs. R. S. Mills gave some sketches
of the life , of Brigadier General W.
P. Sullivan. Ross was mentioned by
Mirjs. C. A. Northingfon. Colonel
Oran Roberts’ life was reviewed by
Mrs. L. R. Sparks.
The meeting was closed by singing
several southern songs. During the
social hour Mrs. Key, assisted by
Mesdames Mills and Northington,
served hot tea, sandwiches and mac-
aroons. Mrs. B. C- Greenwood will
be hostess to the chapter the first
Thursday afternoon in May.
DEPUTY THINKS BARROW USES
“MOTHER” TRUCK TO GET AWAY
VICTORIA, April. 6.—Deputy Sher-
iff Richard Rogan today advanced
another theory as to how Clyde Bar-
row, machine-gun slayer, successful-
ly eludes pursuers.
Rogan said he believed Barrow us-
ed a “mother” truck to effect his
getaways. He was led to this belief,
Rogan said, when a woman motorist
recently reported to him th^t she
saw a fast traveling coupe drive up
to a waiting truck on the Houston
highway, run up a runway into the
truck, and the truck move away.
The truck resembled a moving van.
Deputy Rogan said that may explain
why desperadoes’ cars suddenly dis-
appear from the scene of a crime,
only to reappear in another locality
after evading officers stationed along
the route.
MISSING CHICAGO TOT
FOUND UNCONSCIOUS
CHICAGO, April 10.—Dorette Ziet-
low, 2% year old victim of a “nickel
kidnaping,” was found unconscious
tonight in an abandoned ice house
with her clothes ripped to shreds.
The child was unconscious and al-
most dead from hunger and expos-
ure.
Police, incensed at the brutality of
the kidnaping, believed, that a moron
was responsible and started a wide-
spread hunt for him.
Dorette was rushed to St. Eliza-
beth hospital where doctors started
a fight to save her life. They said
there was no better than a, 50350’
chance that they could do so.
e state it
as our honest belief that the
tobaccos used in Chesterfield
are of finer quality—and hence
of better taste — than in any
other cigarette at the price.
Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company
IUNDREDS OF POLICE
JOIN IN MAN HUNT
KANSAS CITY, April 9.—A meth-
dical manhunt—devoid of the spec-
acular, but none-the-less determined
—was carried on by hundreds of offi-
ers in southwestern states today for
Hyde Barrow, Texas desperado ac-
used of a dozen killings.
At the same time authorities were
n the lookout for John Dillinger, the
utlaw who escaped several weeks
go from the Crown Point, Ind., jail
rith a wooden pistol.
Highways were patrolled, squads
f officers were concentrated at
trategie centers ready to go into
.ction and plans were perfected for
[uick cooperation between the law en-
orcement forces of the various stated,
lepartnxent of justice agents were
issisting in coordinating the efforts.
Authorities worked on the theory
hat Barrow, his gunwoman associr
i.te, Bonnie Parker, and a lieutenant
low believed to be Henry Methvin,
escaped Texas convict, had fled in a
flack (Pontiac) coach stolen in To-
ieka, Kan., Saturday evening.
The car used by the trio Friday
vhen Barrow shot and killed Cal
Campbell, Miami, Okla., constable and
ddnaped Percy Boyd, Commerce,
Dkla., police chief, was found aband-
oned noiffh of Ottawa, Kan., Sat-
urday night.
Boyd inspected a photograph of
Methvin today and said it resembled
hat of Barrow’s companion. He said
;he photograph apparently had been
;aken several years ago, however, and
le could not be certain of the identi-
ication.
In the hunt for Dillinger, police
it Topeka notified authorities at
Function City and Manhattan, Kan.,
Axis afternoon to be on the lookout
:or a car carrying three men and a
woman. A Topeka filling station op-
erator said the machine had a Min-
resota license number similar to that
reported being used by Dillinger. The
driver asked the way to Junction City.
At Hugo, Colo., Sheriff John John-
son and his deputies chased a large
black sedan in the belief that the
driver may have been the Indiana
fugitive. There were two men and
a woman in the car, which eluded
pursuit. Two Hugo men reported
they saw machine gun in the vehicle.
Police at Dallas were holding James
Lamon, 48, an ex-convict reputed to
be an ally of the Barrow gang, and
hoped to obtain information concern-
ing hideouts of the gang.
RELIEF ADMINISTRA-
' TION REMOVED
AUSTIN, April 9.—The Texas re-
lief commission in a turbulent session
today ousted Adam Johnson as state
relief director, recognized the remov-
al of R. L. Holliday of El Pqso as a
member of the board and elected Miss
Marie Dresden, social service consul-
tant, as the new relief commission
executive.
Johnson was ousted by a five to
three vote in executive session on
charges preferred by Commissioner
Jack Reed, whom Johnson succeeded
as director.
C. B. Braun, commission secretary,
was authorized to state Johnson was
Iremoveld (for ‘i“iniqfficiency, 'lack of
sympathy for and understanding of
the relief movement, because he had
no background, for the good of the
service and because it was the choice
of the commission.”
Holliday tonight was preparing a
court suit to contest the right of
Speaker of the House Coke Steven-
son to oust him. In a letter to the
secretary of state, Stevenson said he
had removed Holliday for cause and
appointed Colonel Julius Dorenfield
Jr., of Amarillo in his place.
Dorenfield was seated, four to three,
after heated discussion in which Stev-
enson’s power to remove Holliday
was challenged. Holliday remained
in the sessions and attempted to
vote, but his vote was not recog-
nized by the majority. Holliday has
been involved in a conflict with El
Paso county labor organizations who
demanded his removal. He challeng-
ed all votes by Dorenfield.
Johnson has been director about
two months. Before the commission
discharged him it gave a vote of con-
fidence to the Travis county relief
board after Johnson had demanded
resignation of all members. John-
son’s reasons for demanding the res-
ignations were not made public.
Miss Dresden has been a social
service consultant with the relief
commission since Aug. 1, 1933. She
is a native of Wisconsin, a graduate
of the University of Wisconsin and
has had social service experience in
the Cook county (Chicago) jail, the
Milwaukee Family Welfare associa-
tion, the state board' of control at
Madison and in state unemployment
relief.
Braun stated she was attached to
the T.exas relief commission at re-
to Harry L. Hopkins, federal emerg-
ency relief administrator.
Voting to oust Johnson were Com-!
missioners Reed, Ed Hussion of Hous- ■
ton, W. A. Brooks Jr., of Dallas, B. E.
Giesecke of Austin and Dorenfield.
Against the motion were Commission-
ers Earle Adams of Austin, M. N. j
Chrestman of Dallas, Houston Harts
of San Angelo and Holliday. The
latter’s vote, however, was not rec-
ognized.
SLUM CLEARANCE WORK TO
RECEIVE FEDERAL MILLIONS
COURT'' RULING REOPENS ISSUE
quest of Aubrey Williams, assistant [ly now.
AUSTIN, April 10.—A recent hold-
ing of the Third Civil Appeals Court
that the State is not liable for dam-
ages to a highway worker has re-
vived discussion here concerning the
pi’acticability of some method of
workmen’s compensation for State
workers.
Although requiring such insurance
for its industries, the State, with per-
haps a larger payroll than any indi-
vidual industry, has no method of
compensating its employes when they
are injured on duty.
The Civil Appeals Court ruling,
moreover, if sustained by the Supreme
Court, may discourage the practice
now commonly resorted to—that of a
legislative enactment authorizing the
individual to sue the State. By far
the larger number of these resolu-
tions—of which there are scores pass-
ed at every session of the legislature
—authorize a highway worker to seek
to collect damages for his injuries.
The court held that maintaining
and building highways was a govern-
mental function and pronounced the
rule of law settled that the State is
not liable for the torts of negligence
of its officers, agents or servants en-
gaged in the performance of a gov-
ernmental function, unless it has ex-
pressly assumed liability.
In the same ruling, the court also
held that the Workmen’s Compensa-
tion Act can not apply to the State
as an employer of labor.
Assistant Attorney General James
Stanford, who has charge of suits
against the State, estimated there
were approximately 65 suits of this
type which have been authorized by
the Forty-Third legislature at its
various sessions.
Otto Lang is home from Temple
where he recently underwent an op-
eration. He is getting along nice-
CHICAGO, 111., April 9.—The gov-
ernment will go slumming with offi-
cials of many States this spring—ob-
jective: to get rid of their slums.
Federal millions are nourishing
scores of projects for clearing away
fetid tenements, for springtime is
construction time.
Men as well as money will be put
to work, nuisances abated, and crowd-
ed urban districts beautified as the
government’s housing program is
geared higher.
In Washington $600,000 have been
earmarked for a housing project on
the north side of Omaha, Neb. Its
allotment hinges only on State leg-
islation giving the city authority to
create a housing board. A $400,000
Omaha south side plan is under con-
sideration.
Work is expected to start May 1
on two vast housing jobs in Atlanta.
Two city blocks and $2,750,000 will
be used in construction of Techwood,
Inc., low cost apartment of 557 units
to rent at $7.50 to $8 a month. An-
other will house 800 negro families
at $4.50 a month each.
Neptune Gardens will become
apartment houses erected at cost of
$3,500,000 in East Boston, Mass., as
soon \as the government approves
plan for the slum-eradicating project.
Negotiations are under way for a
Federal loan to a housing project in
Richmond, Va., in which State the
legislature recently passed a slum
clearance and housing bill.
An insurance company built two
low-rent apartments in Newark in
place of tenements. A corporation
in Jersey City is seeking a loan for
the same purpose. A State housing
authority is surveying construction
costs.
Municipalities in New York State
have permission of the New York
legislature to set up housing bodies
and clear slums. Many ax-e watching
Mayor F. II. LaGuardia’s efforts to
rip out tenements in New York City.
Many were condemned but few have
fallen.
Four proposals aimed at Baltimore
slums ax’e befox-e PWA officials in
Washington for approval. They call
for modern apartment houses.
Flox-ida, California and Kansas have
new housing authority laws px-ovid-
ing for corporations to borrow money
from the RFC.
Six blocks in downtown Louisville,
Ky., will be cleax-ed if an early de-
cision in favor of low cost apartments
is received fx-om Washington, as ex-
pected.
CWA workers in Wyoming ax'e de-
molishing shacks and dumps in Chey-
enne and other cities.
MOTOR PRODUCTS
STRIKE IS SETTLED
DETROIT, April 9.—The strike of
American Fedex-ation of Labor mem-
bers at the plant of Motor Products
Corporation was settled tonight with
the strikers agreeing to return to
work tomorrow at a 10 per cent in-
! crease in wages. This strike involv-
ing 4,600 employes was considered the
key to the main dispute in the motor
labor field.
Announcement of the strike settle-
ment was xxxade by William Collins,
Aixxerican Federation of Labor leader.
The agreement was reported rati-
fied at a hastily called meeting of
500 strikers at Germania Hall.
Collins said that in addition to the
wage increase, the settlement provides
for protection of workers through the
i-ecognition of seniority rights and
for ax-bitx*atioix of disputes arising
from piece-rate payment.
Collins said the dispute between
the union and the Motor Products
Corporation arose out of “the failure
of the company to pay some employes
the wage agreed upon by the plant
managers, the replacement of men
by lower paid women on some oper-
ations aixd because of the low wage
Structure ixx the plant.
“The union insisted,” Collins said,
“that these conditions should be
changed befox-e work would be re-
sumed, and presented to the manage-
ment through the Automobile Labor
Board the demands covering all these
points. After long negotiations the
committee finally compromised on a
wage increase of 10 per cent in order
to bring earnings more into line with
those prevailing in the city.
“This farflung effect of the Motor
Products Corporation strike, which
involved about 1,000 strikexvs and for-
ced 3,600 out of work during the
shutdown, made tonight’s develop-
a major step in restoring peace in
the industry. Many of Detroit’s pxin-
cipal motor producing plants depend-
ed upon Motor Products Corporation
for pax-ts and the shutdown today of
the Hudson Motor Company plants,
laying off 18,000 men., was a direct
result of that strike.
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