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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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ALAGNA ACCUSED IN MORRO
CASTLE DEATH THREAT
NEW YORK, Sept. 25.—Additional
revelations of dissension and suspi-
cion among officers of the Morro
Castle in the hours before the ship
burned at sea September 8 with a loss
of 134 lives were spread into the
record of the federal investigation of
the disaster Monday night.
Sixteen hours before flames swept
the $5,500,000 luxury liner off the
New Jersey coast, Acting Captain
William F. Warms told government
investigators, Captain Robert R. Wil-
mott, her master, was so fearful one
of his officers would attack him with
sulphuric acid that he locked him-
self in his cabin.
Wilmott died, presumably of a heart
attack, while he was locked in alone.
The officer Warms is General I.
Alagna, second in command of the
radio room when the ship took fire.
Alagna has testified in earlier ses-
sions of the inquiry that he raced to
and fro between radio room and
bridge while the fire was at its height
pleading in vain with Warms for per-
mission to send out an “S. O. S.”
Just as Alagna was bitter in his
denunciation of Warms when he ap-
peared before the department of com-
merce investigators Warms threw re-
straint to the -winds Monday in de-
nouncing Alagna, all but inferring
that the second radio officer was a
potential assassin.
Warms said on the night before the
fire—a few hours before he died—
Captain Wilmott told him to keep
“my eye on that fellow Alagna.”
“I was up at 5 a. m. Friday,”
Warms testified, and soon afterward
had a talk with Captain Wilmott.
He said:
“ ‘I am very worried. I am afraid
something is going to happen tonight.
I can feel it. I have it on good au-
thority that Alagna had two bottles
of sulphuric acid a day or two ago
and that the chief radio officer took
it away from him.”
“ ‘Let me arrest him and put him
in irons,’ I urged the captain. He
said:
“ ‘No, but I’m keeping my door
locked when I retire lest he throw
acid or something on me.’
“The captain showed me a letter he
had written to the company demand-
ing Alagna’s dismissal. I was in-
structed to tell the officers and stew-
ards to watch him.
“At 5:30 a. m. Captain Wilmott
said to me: ‘For God’s sake watch this
fellow tonight. He has been rais-
ing hell in general.’
“Then the captain died.”
Daily Leader 3 Months for $1.00
SLEEPING GARMENT IS
LINK IN KIDNAP CASE
TRENTON, N. J., Sept. 24.—Care-
fully cached, one of the strongest
pieces of evidence on which New Jer-
sey officials rely to pin the kidnap-
murder of baby Charles A. Lindbergh
Jr. on Bruno Richard Hauptmann is
expected to reappear within a few
days.
It is baby Lindbergh’s tiny sleep-
ing garment—the garment he was
wearing when, without a sound, he
was lifted by the cruel hands of the
kidnaper, spirited down a home-made
ladder into endless darkness. The
garment that was returned to his
broken parents was proof that Dr.
John F. Condon was communicating
with the “bona fide” abductor and not
a cheap chiseler.
The garment has been carefully
preserved by the Lindberghs, who
have had it in their possession since
that fateful night when “Jafsie” tos-
sed $50,000 over a hedge in St. Ray-
mond’s cemetery in the Bronx. It
was understood here that Colonel
Lindbergh prepared to place it in the
hands of state police at any time
they decide to bring it forth and
confront the man in whose home
part of that ransom money was found.
It was the last expansive, egois-
tic gesture of the' kidnaper—forward-
ing that garment—the State intends
to prove it costly to the man who
invaded the Lindbergh nursery. And
Bruno Richard Hauptmann is the
man against whom the State prob-
ably will use it.
Tiny, tragic garment, it is the final
link in the State’s case against
Hauptmann. For, in returning it, the
writer of the 13 ransom notes defi-
nitely identified himself as the kid-
naper by inclosing another note. And
it has definitely been proved that all
the notes are in Hauptman’s hand-
writing.
50 SNOWBOUND, ONE DEAD IN
STORM IN WESTERN ROCKIES
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept'. 24.—Fif-
ty persons were snowbound tonight,
one man was dead, and the high
Sierra and Rocky mountains were
blanketed with white as the result of
an equinoxial storm.
Snow and rain were general in
California, the mountain snow fall
ranging from two to 18 inches.
Henry Allen, a miner, ventured into
the storm at LaPorte, northern Cali-
fornia, and his body was found to-
day. Physicians said he died of ex-
haustion.
A dog team was loaded with sup-
plies at Tahoe City and set out for
Steamboat Bluff, near Rubican Spring,
20 miles away, to try to succor seven
deer hunters including one woman,
after an attempt to reach them by
horseback failed due to the deep snow.
Four men and their wives were re^
ported marooned in West Meadiwos
in the Hell Hole country 20 miles
west of Tahoe City. A rescue party
was organized.
Twenty vacationists were stranded
in cabins at Lake Alpine.
A forest fire crew of 14 men in
mokelumme cabin was caught by the
storm but the men were expected to
fight their way out.
The first “winter” storm was gen-
eral over the west.
METHVIN TRIAL SET NOV. 3
MIAMI, Okla., Sept. 25.—Henry
Methvin, 23 year old partner in crime
of the late Clyde Barrow, pleaded not
guilty here Monday at his arraign-
ment on a charge of murder Cal
Campbell, 63 year old constable, at
Commerce last April 6.
The preliminary trial was set for
November 3 and Methvin, heavily
guarded, was returned to jail to be
held without bond.
Campbell was shot to death as he
and another officer sought to stop a
car containing Methvin, Barrow and
Bonnie Parker, Barrow’s woman com-
panion, who was shot down with him
in Louisiana.
SWOPE, MOLEY, BARUCH
SEEN AS NRA HEADS
WASHINGTON, Sept. 24.—The
capital heard with keen interest todav
a repoi't that President Roosevelt is
preparing to announce complete re-
organization of NRA, probably this
week.
The Washington Post says a new
board to handle Blue Eagle policy-
making will be composed of Bernard
M. Brauch, Dr. Raymond Moley and
other prominent men. Among others
mentioned for posts on this board is
Gerard Swope, president of General
Electric and noted advocate of indus-
trial self-government.
The setup would spell the end oi
so-called one-man rule of NRA. What
this would mean for the future of
Gen. Hugh S. Johnson remains to be
seen. There were various reports, one
that he would have a place in the
new organization and another that
he would not.
The administrator, on vacation for
some time, is expected back at his
desk this week. His executive offi-
cer, Col. George A. Lynch, in an-
nouncing this, said he knew nothing
of talk that Johnson was “out” oi
NRA. The general suggested weeks
ago that a board should rule NRA in-
stead of one man, and indicated he
was anxious to step out when the
pesident felt he could be spared.
The Post says it learned from an
administration authority that besidei
the policy-making group, the plan
calls for an administrative board of
five, most of whom would be chosen
from the present NRA organization.
This would be headed by an execu-
tive officer, and for this post Colonel
Lynch is named as a leading possi-
bility. Othei's mentioned as pros-
pects for places on the board are
Leon Henderson, head of the NRA
division of research and planning;
Leverett E. Lyon, economist of the
Brookings Institution, and Leon C.
Marshall, vice chairman of the na-
tional labor board.
Baruch, a prominent financier, with
a background as chairman of the war
industries board in the world war,
has devoted much study to questions
of industrial mobilization for war
purposes. He and General Johnson
have been close associates. Baruch
visited Hyde Park last Saturday and
had a lengthy talk with the president.
Swope and the president had an
engagement for a conference at the
summer White House today. Moley,
who was chief of what became known
as the Brain Trust, has been a fre-
quent visitor at the White House since
leaving his post as assistant secre-
tary of state. He is now flying home
from a trip to Mexico.
The Post says Donald R. Richbei-g,
NRA’s general counsel, “who has
emerged more and more as a presi-
dential adviser, is expected to have a
prominent role also in the reorgani-
zation, though whether as an official
directly identified with NRA or as a
new coordinator of general admin-
istration policy, is not yet clarified.
The paper declares that the chair-
manship of the policy-making group
has been offered to Baruch, but that
if he proves unavailable Richberg
may head the board.
President Roosevelt has been think-
ing about the NRA reorganization for
weeks. Some time ago it became
known that he looked with favor on
a plan, suggested by General John
son, to name three boards to rule
NRA, one shaping policy and the other
handling administrative and judicial
matters. Nothing is known as to
the possible members of the judicial
board.
Whatever the new organization may
do on such controversial questions as
price-fixing, it is well known that the
president favors retention of the col-
lective bargaining and the prohibi-
tion of child labor.
Many observers feel that along
with simplifying the complicated code
structure, the new setup may put
greater stress on enforcement of code
provisions.
Whatever is done along the reor-
ganization line, the final say on what
the future of NRA shall be after the
national industrial recovery act ex
pires next June 16 rests with the
congress meeting in January.
For Want Ad Results—The Leader
PASTORS OFFER LIQUOR
LAW AID
(Star-Telegram)
The General Ministers Association
Monday morning at First Christian
Church resolved to offer “full cooper-
ation to law enforcement officers in
cleaning up gambling dens and stop-
ping liquor law violations.”
Plans for a countywide program,
devoted to “cleaning up Fort Worth,
which has become known as the
gambling center of Texas’’ -were in-
cluded in the preamble to the resolu-
tion. The paper pledged full coop-
eration to Will R. Parker, nominee
for district attorney, in the “enforce-
ment of all laws” 'when he begins
his term of office.
Dr. Tom W. Brabham, president of
Texas Woman’s College, was named
chairman, of a committee to work out
the countywide program, which like-
ly will include plans for asking Com-
missioners Court to call a local op-
tion election on 3.2 beer for the gen-
eral election on Nov. 6.- He will name
a committee to assist him and have
a repoi't ready to make at a mass
meeting of dry forces Thursday at
8 p. m. at Broadway Baptist Church.
Rev. W. R. White, pastor of Broad-
way Church and a member of the
state executive committee of the new-
ly formed Texas Drys, reported that
the Tarrant County Baptist Pastors
Conference had adopted a similar res-
olution in a previous meeting Monday
morning.
Rev. Mr. White also reported action
of the state dry organization Satur-
day in Dallas when plans were made
for seeking local option elections in
Tarrant, Dallas and other counties.
He said should the legislature also
call for a vote in November on re-
peal of the hard liquor amendment
that the drys, in counties where a
vote on repeal of the 3.2 beer meas- ^
ure is secured, would be voting both
“against” and “for.” He declared
that the legalization and( sale of beer
in Texas had brought about “intoler-
able conditions, increased drunken-
ness, more crime and automobile ac-
cidents, and the illicit sale of hard
liquors.”
The ministers association, Baptist
Pastors Conference, the W. C. T. U.
and the Law Enforcement League as
well as the Texas Drys leaders, will
take part in the mass meeting.
The resolution adopted by; the Bap-
tist conference called on city and
county officials to enforce Hie law
against sale of hard liquors. Rev.
Mr. White was chairman of the reso-
lution committee.
Rev. Roy Leicht Eger was elected
president of the conference in the con-
cluding- business session. Rev. T. E.
Durham was reelected secretary. Oth-
er officers elected are Rev. Carl Clark,
vice president, and W. W. Sloan,
treasurer. Sloan is a layman.
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likely to be overlooked. PLEASE re*
member this.
Copyright 1934,
Xh* American Tobacco Company
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ANN HARDING
In “The Fountain,” RKO-Radio
picture from Charles Morgan’s best-
selling novel, playing at the Leroy
tonight and Wednesday. Popular Ann
Harding has a vehicle that gives full
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ents.
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