The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 64, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 20, 1931 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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BOOZE-CRAYER FINDS
HIS SNAKES BOXED, PY-
THON GETS IT IN NECK
BROWNSVILLE, Texas, May 19.
A broken snake’s neck is going to
cost someone $250 if Snake King is
successful in collecting.
The snake trainer said here Tues-
day that one of two pythons which
escaped in Chicago recently and was
recaptured, arrived in Brownsville
with a broken neck. Mr. King is pre
paring to sue a railway company for
$250.
He explained that the reptile was
worth much more than that amount to
him, but that $250 was the maximum
that could be collected from the rail-
way company.
Mr. King said, if the snakes had
been poorly packed and had managed
to escape, he might have overlooked
the snake’s broken neck. but he de-
clared emphatically they were prop-
erly boxed and could not have es-
caped.
“I believe,” he said, “that someone
saw the large boxes marked ‘snakes’
and thought they contained booze.
Whoever he was probably decided the
boxes were marked ‘snakes so no one
would bother the shipment. When he
tore open the box, and really found a
snake, he left in a hurry without
bothering to nail the box shut again.”
TEXAS GETS 28,600 ACRES THAT
ONCE WAS OKLAHOMA’S
FORMER UPSHUR COUNTY
CLERK IS INDICTED
70 MORE PATROLMEN
FAVORED FOR HIGHWAYS
AUSTIN, Texas, May 19.—Confer-
ees agreed Tuesday on the bill in-
creasing the number of highway pa-
trolmen from fifty to 120 and Senate
and House adopted the report. Orig-
inal bills called for 200.
The conference bill permits an in-
crease of fifty and transfers twenty
license and weight inspectors now
working in the same division to the
highway patrol. The law enforce-
ment division of the Highway Depart-
ment, to include the patrol and other
enforcement agencies, wjas created.
The conference report retained the
amendment by George Purl, adopted
by the Senate, to prohibit all em-
ployes of the division, under penalty
of dismissal from campaigning for
AUSTIN, Texas, May 19.—About
28,000 acres reverts to Texas and a
group of persons who have been ex-
ercising the privileges of Oklahoma
citizenship will be citizens of Lips-
cdmb, ^Hemphill, Wheeler, Collings-
worth and Childress Counties by the
terms of the Clint Small bill, passed
finally in the House Tuesday. The
bill had no opposition. The land
comes to Texas as a result of a re-
survey of the 100th meridian and has
been a matter of legislative concern
for more than a year.
By final decree of the Supreme Court
of the United States, entered March
17, 1930, Texas was given jurisdic-
tion over a strip of territory about
112 miles long, 4,000 feet wide at the
south end and about 400 feet at the
north end. This decree was the re-
sult of a cross action filed by Texas
in a suit of Oklahoma vs. State of
Texas, started about eleven years ago.
In the main suit, the Federal Gov-
ernment recovered on behalf of cer-
tain Indian tribes some property south
of the Red River in Wichita County.
At the time of the final decree of the
Supreme Court,, this strip became a
part of Lipscomb, Hemphill, Wheeler,
Collingsworth and Childress Counties
under a bill passed two years ago.
Six Hundred Owners.
About 600 families own land in this
strip, a few of whom live within its
boundaries. The bill that passed the
House provides that the Commissioner
of the General Land Office, the Attor-
ney General and the Governor shall
constitute a special land board to
determine the bona fide claimants to
the land, as shown by the deed rec-
ords of Oklahoma. Also, they are
to make such rules and regulations
not inconsistent with this law to pro-
vide for selling and patenting the land
to the holders of title emanating from
sovereignty. The sale price is to be
$1 and acre, plus $1 filing fee on each
tract, and 15c an acre examination
fee, the last two items to provide
money to carry on the work of the
special land board. The money ac-
cruing to Texas from,the $1 an acre
goes into the permanent school fund,
as well as any surplus remaining in
the available fund of the special land
board.
Four Months for Purchase.
The holders of title are given four
months in which to make the applica-
tion and purchase, in accordance with
the rules of the special -land board,
after publication for two weeks in
newspapers of general circulation in
the affected area. If the claimant does
not make an application for purchase,
any holders of a lien on the land may
buy it in the name of and for the
claimant, the amount paid by the lien
holders becoming a lien in addition
to that already held. All deeds, mort-
AUSTIN, May 19.—Claude Ray,
former district clerk of Upshur Coun-
ty, was charged by indictment with
forging five witness fee certificates
totaling $264, by the Travis County
grand jury.
Ray was lodged in the county jail
several days ago after being brought
here from Gilmer by state rangers.
Mr. and Mrs. James Bailey are home
from Ballinger and Mr. Bailey is re-
cuperating from an operation for ap-
pendicitis which he underwent in a
hospital of that city.
C. B. Taliaferro received a message
Wednesday notifying him of the death
of his cousin, James Taliaferro, in a
railroad accident at Wanoka, Okla.
Mr. Taliaferro was an engineer on
the train and made his home in
Amarillo.
Gordon Mackey is here from Temple
to look after business interests con-
nected with the Mackey Drug Store.
COTTON TRUCKS AGAIN
ROLL AFTER RELOADING
TO COMPLY WITH LAW
FORT WORTH, Tex., May 19.—
The nine truck drivers who were stop-
ped here Monday afternoon while tak-
ing a consignment of cotton to Hous-
ton were permitted to continue Tues-
day morning after reloading the
trucks with 10 bales each.
When stopped by state highway
officers the trucks were loaded with
158 bales of lint cotton. Each truck
carted from 16 to 22 bales, it was
stated.
No charges were filed against the
men because the arrests were made
in the city limits of Fort Worth, it
was said.
This was believed to have been the
first arrest under a new law signed
last Wednesday by Governor Sterling
which prevents truck from carrying
more than 20 bales of compressed or
10 bales of uncompressed cotton.
CREDITOR, FOR $39 DEBT
ATTACHES $240 OF UNITED
STATES FARM LOAN
YOUTHS SENTENCED
AT GEORGETOWN IN
THEATRE ROBBERY
QUITTING ARMY POSTS
political candidates. Another feature
of the report requires the patrolmen gages, contracts and instruments of
to be put under $1,000 bond.
TRIO BOUND AND ROBBED
IN BERTHS ON TRAIN
RAWLINS, Wyo., May 19.—Three
passengers of the westbound Los An-
geles limited, Union Pacific passen-
ger train, were bound, gagged and
robbed in their berths early Tuesday
by two youths identified as soldiers.
The robbers were captured at Green
Springs.
Those robbed were Mrs. Joseph E.
Huber, 60; her son, H. P. Huber, 30,
and Mrs. M. A. Johnson, 60. Huber,
who had been bound and gagged with
adhesive tape, freed himself and called
the conductor. A train dispatcher at
Green River, Wyo., called Sheriff
'Jesslen), who, with several railroad
special agents, met the train and ar-
rested the robbers. Their loot, $65
and a watch, was recovered.
YOUTHS FACE CHARGES
OF FELONY SWINDLING
BELTON, May 19.—Two boys have
been released on an appearance bond
of $500 on a charge of felony swind-
ling, made in connection with
the sale of an alleged stolen automo-
bile to Zachery and Atkerson, dealers
of Temple.
The motor number and license plates
on the automobiles had been changed.
The boys were arrested at Lometa by
Sheriff John R. Bigham.
every nature affecting the title of the
land may be filed and recorded in
Texas, and such instruments become
parts in the chain of title in Texas, as
well as enforceable instruments in
this State, except purchase money
owing to Oklahoma or the United
States or taxes levied by Oklahoma
or any political subdivision thereof.
SHERMAN RIOT TRIAL CALLED
AUSTIN, May 20.—More than 150
witnesses have been subpoenaed to
appear in Ninety-eighth district court
June 1 for the trial of Jeff Jones, first
of the defendants in the “Sherman
ribt cases” scheduled.
Fifty-three of the witnesses were
summoned by the state, the remainder
by defense attorneys.
The case is the first of 71 indict-
ments against 14 defendants in con-
nection with the burning of the Gray-
son county court house May 9, 1930,
and the death of George Hughes, ne-
gro on trial for criminally assault-
ing the wife of a Grayson county res-
ident.
Rev. A. F. Avant has secured the
services of Bro. Roy Camp of Fort
Worth to conduct the singing for the
revival meeting which begins May 31
at the Lampasas Baptist church.
The Latest Style
Pink Gold
Ful-Vue Frames
They Show Your
Beautiful Eyes.
—J. D. CASSELL-
Fits Them.
Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Thomas and
Mr. and Mrs. A. H. McGuire left
Wednesday afternoon for Brownfield
where they will make their home.
Messrs. Thomas and McGuire have
purchased a gin at that place and
will operate same this coming season.
These people have many friends
among the Lampasas people, who re-
gret to see them go but wish them
every success in their new home.
Mrs. Thomas was an active worker
in the Baptist church of this city and
will be greatly missed by the mem-
bers of the Lampasas church.
BILL TO LEGALIZE
AMATEUR BOXING
DIES IN HOUSE
AUSTIN, May 19.—The bill to le-
galize amateur boxing and numerous
other house bills on second reading
became dead issues Tuesday when the
house voted to suspend the 72-hour
rule only on senate bills on second and
third reading and local bills. The
boxing bill was pending business when
the 72-hour rule became effective at
noon.
(Dallas News)
“It would relieve the feeling of de-
privation of the local communities if
these posts could be adapted to some
other public purposes.”
So President Hoover. He has rec-
ommended that between twenty and
thirty small army posts be abandoned
as a move in economy. Evidently that
can be done. But when it comes to
taking the post property definitely out
of community life, economy becomes
something else again.
Of course there may be very good
uses to which, subject to building al-
terations, the post properties can be
put either by communities or States.^
There may be Federal availability for
these, and it is good business as well
as common sense to put the post build-
ings to such uses. But where politi-
cal expediency is involved in Federal
utilization, no economy will be effect-
ed. It has yet to be demonstrated
that Congress will abandon any of
the army posts.
From time to time it has been point-
ed out that there is insufficient naval
construction and repair to occupy
present naval yard facilities. But
every suggestion to dismantle meets
determined opposition. At last re-
ports there was even an effort under
way to provide a new yard on the
Southern coast. Public construction
is remarkably like taxes. It goes up,
it does not come down. There are
votes in them thar posts.
BUCKNER ORPHANS’
HOME BUYS POLICY
AMERICAN PEER AND PEERESS
Boston Evening Transcript: Lord
and Lady Astor have just celebrated
the twenty-fifth anniversary of their
marriage, and London society has
greeted the happy pair with an en-
thusiasm born of real liking and pop-
ularity. Lord Astor was born an
American and his wife comes of a
noted Virginian family. She herself
is a native of Virginia and never fails
to indicate her attachment to the land
of her fathers. If her lord is not
quite so eloguent of his affection for
the country which gave him birth and
a splendid heritage, it is not because
he does not care for the United States.
He is not a man given to effusive ex-
pression, but he has been known to
declare his high regard for us and
our country. It was his fathei*, the
first Viscount Astor, who separated
himself from allegiance to the United
States, but his sons, now established
in England, have no grievances or
resentments to cherish, and if they
are part of King George’s subjects
they say it is not because of any ill
feeling for their motherland.
Lady Astor enjoys the distinction of
having been the first woman to sit in
the House of Commons, duly elected
by a British constituency. Without in
any degree sacrificing the slightest
part of her loyalty to the institutions
she has sworn to protect, she is never-
theless as loyal an American as the
most patriotic man or woman born
under the Stars and Stripes. She loves
this country and has often said so.
Apd so America comes to be repre-
sented in the British Parliament by
two persons born in a country, once a
colony, which threw off its allegiance
because there was no room for the
principle which enunciated “taxation
without representation.” •
KANSAS CITY, May 19.—V. Web-
ner Wiedemann, division manager in
Kansas City for the Sun Life Assur-
ance Company of Canada, reported to-
day. his company had sold a 1-million-
dollar 10-year endowment policy to
the Buckner Orphans’ Home in Dal-
las, Texas. The deal was arranged
by John L. Boggs, a Dallas insurance
broker, and in Kansas City the tran-
saction was handled by W. H. (Ted)
Butler of the Sun agency. The Sun
Life Assurance Company of Canada
does not do business in Texas.
According to Wiedmann, John G.
Hardin, oil man of Burkburnett, Tex.,
made a large cash gift to the Buck-
ner Orphans’ Home in Dallas some
time ago, with the stipulation the
major part of the gift was to be tied
up in insurance with an endowment
contract. Representatives of the or-
phanage paid all the premiums of the
10-year life of the policy in advance.
A check for $759,000 was paid Satur-
day to the Sun Life Assurance Com-
pany by representatives of the Buck-
ner Home.
At the end of the 10-year period,
Wiedemann explained, the endowment
will be about $1,221,000. Then that
endowment will be left in trust with
the Sun Company 25 years, in which
the orphanage will receive approxi-
mately $65,000 a year in interest.
Following the trust period the endow-
ment will pass to the orphanage.
TEXARKANA, Ark., May 19.—
Government loans to finance 1931
crops are not subject to garnishment
for debt, Judge Louis Josephs ruled
in municipal court .today in dismissing
a $60 attachment sought by a Texar-
kana firm against R. A. Quillin, far-
mer, of Fouke, Arkansas. Attorneys
for the firm appealed to the circuit
court.
The case was declared to be the
first of its kind in the country and
had been watched closely by govern-
ment officials. Judge Josephs based
his ruling on a higher court citation
declaring that “property of the de-
fendant which has been dedicated by
law to a particular purpose cannot
be 'diverted from that purpose by
garnishment proceedings.”
The judge declared that the law
which governed the case was found
in a resolution adopted by Congress
and regulated by the Secretary of
Agriculture providing for issuance cf
loans to farmers to finance 1931 crops.
Quillin was granted $400 on a $464
loan application and had deposited
the first payment of $240 when a por-
tion of the funds was garnished for
the $39 debt.
When government officials learned
of the garnishment, United States
District Attorney W. N. Ivie was or-
dered to represent the government
and intervened last Friday.
Ivie and Quillin’s attorneys contend-
ed that the loan was a trust fund and
was not subject to garnishment. L.
Jean Cook, attorney for the suing
firm, denied that a farm loan was a
trust fund. The appeal resulted in
the funds being tied up in the bank
until the circuit court meets in June.
Ivie announced that if the circuit
court reversed Judge Josephs’ ruling,
the case would be taken to the Su-
preme Court.
GEORGETOWN, Texas, May 19.—
In district court here Tuesday George
and Paul Smothers, youths, were giv-
en five years in the penitentiary on
pleas of guilty to robbery with fire-
arms.
Paul is a nephew of George. Both
live at Round Rock. They wetfe charg-
ed with robbery of the Howard and
Colonial theatres at Taylor the night
of February 19. The cashier being
handed a note saying: “Give me all
your money and make no noise.”
Th>e two accented feenfen<3esi im-
mediately.
ANOTHER HUGE WELL OUT
OF CONTROL IN TEXAS
CORPUS CHRISTI, May 19.—Gas
masks and necessary equipment had
been sent for as workmen prepared
tonight for an attempt to muzzle the
Lawrence No. 2, Houston Oil company
well which blew out of control today
and was spouting a hugh volume of
oil and gas high into the air.
The drill stem was blown from the
hole, shattering a large steel derrick.
No :one was seriously injured, al-
though several workers were tempo-
rarily overcome by gas during the
day. Strict precautions were taken to
prevent fire.
Oil men declared the well was an
unusually large gasser, although an
estimate of its flow was unobtainable.
MAKE ADVANCES ON
EGGS FOR STORAGE
LEGISLATURE OUTLAWS
“MARATHON” CONTESTS
AUSTIN, May 19.—Both branches
of the Texas legislature today had
voted against “marathon” contests.
The bill passed by the senate to-
day and approved by the house several
weeks ago, would prohibit marathon
contests of more than 24 hours dura-
tion.
The provisions of the bill were
drawn to cover marathon dances, ex-
tended bicycle races and «ther physi-
cal and mental endurance contests.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, May 19.—
Due to prevailing low egg prices, the
Cooperative Poultry Producers’ Asso-
ciation of Texas is advancing 10c a
dozen on eggs to be placed in storage
until fall or until prices advance.
More than 10,000 cases, or twenty cars
are held by the association now, ac-
cording to A. C. Read, sales manager.
This cooperative received a loan of
$50,000 from the Federal Farm Board
for such purposes, he said.
Notice to Eastern Star Members
The Eastern Star meets Thursday
night at eight o’clock. This is the
night for the election of officers, and
all members are urged to be present.
Amy Rogers, W. M.
Alice Casbeer, Sec.
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