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The Lampasas Daily Leader
TWENTY-EIGHTH YEAR
WEDNESDAY
LAMPASAS, TEXAS, SEPTEMBER 9, 193L
WEDNESDAY
NUMBER 16Q
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HERE ARE THE SIZES
14 to 15 Va
GREAT PURCHASE SALE
of MEN’S DRESS SHIRTS
PRE-SHRUNK NECKBANDS
Men, here is a real buy in beautiful shirts,
all seven-button front. Beautiful broadcloth
in neat stripes, checks and fast colors.
Regular $2.00 values. We bought a quan-
tity of these shirts and are featuring them at
this unusual low price.
NEW NECKWEAR JUST ARRIVED
each
or
3 for
$3.75
Cox & Shanks
SERVICE HELD FOR
VICTIM OF SHOCK
BARKER BRIGGS IN CRITICAL
CONDITION IN TEMPLE
Barker Briggs, who went to a Tem-
ple hospital Tuesday morning, is re-
ported to be in a critical condition.
His case was diagnosed as Anthrax
by local physicians and the same diag-
nosis was given by the doctors in
Temple. His brother, D. T. Briggs,
was called early Wednesday morning
and went to Temple,
CLEBURNE MAYOR
SUES NEWSPAPER
CLEBURNE, Tex., Sept. 7.—Mayor
E. E. Hunter of Cleburne has asked
$25,000 in damages in a suit filed
against the Cleburne Times-Review
and Alderman Dave Ross for alleged
reflections on his honesty.
Hunter claimed that his reputation
for honesty was assailed in the pub-
lication of a portion of the proceed-
ings of a recent session of the Cle-
burne city council. The article was
published August 21.
It was a report of the council meet-
ing at which Alderman Ross allegedly
stated that he believed the tax equali-
zation board had been influenced' in
certain tax matters,
Hearing of the suit has been set
for the October term of court. Hunt-
er asked $15,000 actual and $10,000
punitive and exemplary damages.
FATHER OF W. E. MOORE
PASSED AWAY SUNDAY
CAPONE ALLOWED TO DROP
PLEA ON PRO CHARGE
J. H. Moore, seventy-five years of
age, passed away Sunday in Freder-
icksbuxg at the home of his daughter
after a short illness. Mr. Moore suf-
fered a heart attack last week in San
Antonio where he spent a good part
of his time and was then taken to
the home of his daughter where his
death occurred on Sunday. Funeral
services were held Tuesday and thej dodging charges was set
body was laid to rest by the side of October 6.
his wife in the Rocky cemetery about
twenty-five miles from Fderericks-
CHICAGO, Sept. 8.—U. S. District
Judge James H. Wilkerson granted
Tuesday 'the motion of “Scarface”
Alphonse Capone, chief of Chicago
gangsters, for leave to withdraw his
plea of guilty to an indictment for
conspiracy against the prohibition
law.
The gangster’s trial on the tax
for trial
Judge Wilkerson had allowed a
similar motion on indictments for
burg. W. E. Moore of this city was I evasion of income taxes at a hearing
notified last Saturday of his father’s I last July 31, but had withheld the
illness and was at his bedside when ; ruling on the prohibition charges and
he passed away. Mr. Moore had visit- | instructed the government to present
ed here a number of times with his j the evidence before a new grand jury
son and has many friends around , with a view to more specific charges
DOCTOR SAYS EDISON
IS SLOWLY FAILING
DEL RIO, Tex., Sept. 7.—Funeral
services for Paul Kamps, 14-year-old
Brackettville youth who met death
Saturday were conducted there Mon-
day morning, under the auspices of
the American Legion, Mayor J. J.
McCabe of Brackettville, said.
Mayor McCabe said death resulted
when the lad reached up from the
bath tub to turn on an electric light.
Several other Brackettville authori-
ties refused to divulge information
aid Kamps, widely known in Brackett-
ville. The lad had put in two years
pertaining to the lad’s death.
Young Kamps was the son of Ger-
in a religious school.
When found still breathing, Central
Power & Light. Company employes in
Brackettville, one of whom is from
Del Rio, worked on the boy more than
two hours in an effort to save his life,
it was stated.
Sam H. Walk, manager of the Cen-
tral Power & Light Company in Del
Rio said his employes state positive-
ly that the boy was found in the bath
room entangled in heavy fishing cord.
He says there was no indication of
electrocution.
DALTON CALLS WITHOUT GUNS
Lampasas.
TEMPLE RESIDENT FINDS NA-
TIVE LAND ECONOMIC UTOPIA
Roasting ears 20c dozen,
beans 10c pound—Lang’s Gro.
green
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TO USERS OF TELEPHONE
Some users of the telephone when
they finish their conversation, “slam”
the receiver on the hook and the per-
son at the other end of the line re-
ceives a shock like the bursting of a
cannon cracker in the ear. Hang the
receiver gently on the hook and the
party on the other end of the line
will not use profanity.
CONVICT INVENTS LOCK;
IN 3 YEARS MAKES $100,000
TEMPLE, Sept. 8.—There is a cer-
tain place where a good brick house
can be rented for $10 per year while
taxes on a modest, comfortable cot-
tage are $5 per annum. The people
do not contract debts and buy only
for cash.
A man’s bed can be sold from un-
der him in satisfaction of debt. Doc-
tors charge 60 cents to prescribe for
patients calling at their offices, or $1
if they make the call.
Beer is 3 cents per bottle, whisky
44 cents a quart and port wine 50
cents a gallon. Labor is paid from
$1 to $2 per day. The people are
happy and don’t worry.
Their chief entertainment is attend-
ing church and church outings, and
the number of automobiles is few.
This is a description of conditions
existing in his home town of 2000
people in Sferbia, Yugoslavia, where
there has been but one fire in 58
years, according to A. Slocovich, for-
mer Temple l’esident, who has return-
ed to his native country to end his
days after paying a visit here.
bearing heavier penalties in a new
indictment.
PLAN TO HOLD MUCH OF
COTTON CROP IS CONSIDERED
SAN QUENTIN, Calif., Sept. 8.—
Harold Marks’ three years in prison
here have netted him $100,000,
A typewriter expert when he came
to prison, Marks settled down to in-
vent a lock. Prison officials allowed
him to apply for a patent. A lock
firm placed the sum in eschow until
the patent is granted. The lock,
Marks said, is a combination dial-and-
key model. A word must be dialed
before the key can be inserted.
Marks says he will share the $100,-
000 with Mrs. Margaret Slater of
Watsonville, who helped finance his
project, and with Victor J. Evans,
San Francisco attorney.
RESOLUTIONS BY
PRESBYTERIAN AUXILIARY
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Cassell went
to Temple Wednesday morning on ac-
count of the illness of Barker Briggs
who is in a hospital of that city.
Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Cockrell who
spent the past three weeks in St.
Louis, Mo., on a vaaction trip, are
visiting here in the home of his moth-
er, Mrs, H. C, Cockrell,
The Presbyterian Woman’s Auxili-
ary bows in humble submission to
God’s Holy Will, as He in His wise
providence has seen fit to remove
from our midst our beloved sister
and co-worker, Mrs. Ed S. Moox'e
Therefore, we resolve
Firstly: To ever strive to follow
her example in faithfulness, gentler
ness, and love.
Secondly: To tiy to live more use-
ful lives in the Kingdom work.
Thirdly: To strive more earnestly
to lead others into God’s ways.
Respectfully submitted,
Mrs. D. H. Kirkpatrick,
Mi's, Marshal Wells,
Mrs. Walter LaBounty,
Committee.
Mr. and Mrs. K. C. Dillard and baby
of Austin are visiting here with Mrs.
Dillard’s mother, Mrs. H. C. Cockrell.
Mr. and Mrs. Casbeer Snell and
little daughter have returned to their
home at Gatesville.
Mrs. John Purves and daughter,
Mrs. Feigh Cook and baby of Sterling
City, are visiting in the home of Mrs
Purves’ brother, J. M. Powledge.
WEST ORANGE, N. J., Sept. 8,
Dr. Hubert S. Howe, personal physi-
cian of Thomas A. Edison, who col
lapsed August 1, Tuesday said the
noted inventor “is slowly and definite-
ly failing.”
Accompanying the physician’s com-
ment was a statement by Charles
Edison, a son, that “father is not
quite as well as he was a week or
two ago.”
Both declared that “there is no rea-
son for immediate concern.”
Dr. Howe said that while some fea-
tures of Mr. Edison’s condition have
impi'oved, the uremic poisoning, the
worst of the four diseases from which
he is suffering, has settled in his kid-
neys. He is also afflicted with dia-
betes, ulcers of the stomach and
Bright’s disease.
Roasting ears 20c dozen,
beans 10c pound—Lang’s Gro.
green
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 8.—President
Hoover Tuesday sought a way out
for American cotton growers, buried
under the highest September crop es-
timate in sixteen years.
Eugene Meyer, chairman of the
Fedei’al Reserve Board, and William
L. Clayton of Houston, Texas, a lead-
ing cotton merchant, were called to
the White House as the official Sep-
tember estimate of the Department of
Agriculture forecast 15,685,000 bales.
Observers believed the President
was looking for a way to carry out
a scheme advanced by some Southern
Senators under which the Government
would carry over several million bales
of this year’s crop for those farmers
who agree not to plant any cotton
next yeai*.
Senator Smith (Dem.) of South
Carolina, who conferred recently with
the President, is known to favor such
a plan. Senator Caraway (Dem.) of
Arkansas came here Tuesday to press
such a proposal upon Mr. Hoover,
No Announcement Made,
No announcement, howevei’, was
forthcoming from the White House,
where George R. James of Tennessee,
member of the Fedei'ad Reserve
Board, joined in the conferences late
in the day.
Under the Smith-Cax’awgy proposal,
the cotton farmers would be financed
for a share of this year’s surplus, sell
the cotton next year and take the dif-
ference between prevailing low prices
and the increased price expected to
result next year from their refusal
to plant new crops,
Senator Caraway would have the
Government buy 8,000,000 bales at not
less than 8c a pound, He then would
have this allocated to those farmers
who agree pot to plant next year,
permitting the farmers to collect the
difference between the 8c a pound and
the prospective higher price in 1932.
Ten Million Affected,
“There are 10,000,000 people de-
pending on cotton,” said Senator
Caraway. “They didn’t buy anything
last year, and they can’t buy anything
this year. It is my belief that this
plan would be just the kick to break
the psychology of this depression.
Certainly it would make buyers of
these 10,000,000 people and that would
start factories to going again,”
DISTRICT COURT PROCEEDINGS
Following ai'e the cases disposed of
in district court on Tuesday after-
noon:
O. D. Smithwick vs. Bonnie May
Smithwick, divorce; granted.
Ford Mitchell vs. Ethel Mitchell,
divorce; granted.
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 8.—Emmett Dal-
ton, last survivor of the Dalton gang,
notorious outlaws of the old Indian
territory days, came to town on a
little business trip, but he came with-
out his pistols and departed without
a posse on his heels, as of old.
The jone-time bank robber, train
l'obber and all-round despei’ado is now
operating peaceably and profitably as
a real estate dealer at Hollywood,
California. He said there is more
money in real estate than there ever
was in bank robbing, and it is safer.
Dalton came back to look after his
interests as a stockholder in the War-
saw Land Company, an Ozark devel-
opment concern of Warsaw, Mo. He
said if things looked promising he
would move back to Missoui'i, his na-
tive state, and spend his remaining
days. He left Missouri 52 years ago,
at the age of 8.
Tall, straight and nigged, Dalton
belies his 60 years. He is accompa-
nied on his Missouri trip by his wife,
who was Julia Johnson, his child-
hood sweetheart. She waited and
married him upon his release from
serving 14 years in prison for at-
tempted simultaneous holdup of two
banks in Coffeyville, Kan., October 5,
1892, in which two other Dalton boys,
Bob and Grant, two other outlaws
and four citizens were killed.
“Where Lampasas Is Entertained*
SHOWING LAST TIME TONIGHT
What we believe to be as good a
motion picture as can be made—
“RACING BLOOD”
With Clark Gabel, Madge Evans,
Ernest Torrence, Lew Cody and the
grandest horse you ever saw—“Tom-
my Boy.”
Actually photographed on the stock
farms and at the famous race tracks
—“Churchill Downs” in Kentucky.
Here is the “Daddy” of all race
track pictures!
Here is a picture the entire family
will enjoy. And we want everybody
in Lampasas to see this picture—If
you can not afford the price of ad-
mission, then just tell the manage-
ment and pay what you can. But
by all means be there!
It’s the kind of picture that keeps
your eyes glued to the screen from
the opening scene ’till the end—the
kind that will make you shed tears
one moment—grip the aims* of your
chair the next then suddenly stand
up and cheer!
If you don’t say it’s among the
finest motion pictures ever made then
we’ll gladly refund your money.
Extras: Good 2-reel Comedy
“The Tamale Vendor”
(Packed with a carload of laughs)
And Graham McNamee Newscasting
Show Starts 7:30 p. m.
ALLRED REFUSES ADVICE
TO LEGISLATURE MEMBERS
AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 8.—-Attorney
General James V. Allred Tuesday re-
fused to comply with a request of
Representative Elbert M. Barron for
an expression as to the legality of
Gov. Huey Long’s plan to enact a
law forbidding ihe planting of any
cotton in Texas. The Attorney Gen-
eral told Mr. Barron that in futui'e
he would strictly follow his’ construc-
tion of Article 4S99. Revised Stat-
utes,, which, he says, foi’bids giving
opinions to individual members of .the
legislature. This revex'ses the foxmer
practice of the department.
Hereafter, when legislators desix’e
an opinion as to the legality of any
measure, they must persuade a com-
mittee to make a formal request.
MEXICO INVITED TO
JOIN NATIONS LEAGUE
GENEVA, Sept. 8.—Mexico was in-
vited unanimously by the assembly
today to join the League of Nations
after a number of delegates had de-
livered addresses of indorsement.
The league thus moved to rectify
what some of its members termed
a “lamentable erx'or” in excluding
Mexico from possible membership
TOMORROW (One Day Only)
Walter Houston in
“THE STAR WITNESS”
Another one of the finest
coixtributions in five years!
screen
J. A. DUNKUM, BANKER
OF MARLIN, SUCCUMBS
MARLIN, Texas, Sept. 7.—J. A.
Dunkum, 73, Max'lin banker, died here
Monday afternoon after an illness of
several days. He was a native of
Virginia and had been in Texas forty-
seven yeax*s. He resided in Lampasas
a short time before coming to Falls
County to teach school, subsequently
serving as superintendent of the Mar-
lin public schools. He later entered
business, becoming vice president of
the First State Bank on its organiza-
tion in 1908, serving in this capacity
until his death. He was a member of
the Presbyterian Church. He is sur-
vived by his wife; a son, W. G. Dun-
kum, and a daughter, Mary Louise
Dunkum of Marlin; a sister, Miss Jen-
nie Dunkum of Farmville, Fla. Fun-
eral services will be held at the home
at 5 p. m. Tuesday with burial here,
BIDS WANTED
Sealed bids will be received for the
construction of the Lampasas City
Hall up to 4 o’clock p. m. September
25, 1931, at the architect’s office and
will be opened in the Mayor’s office
at Lampasas, Texas, at 10 o’clock a.
m. September 26, 1931. Plans and
specifications may be had at the office
of the architect, R. L. Thomas, Aus-
when the organization was formed 12 j tin, Texas, on deposit of $15.00 and
years ago. such bid to be accompanied with a
U. S. ESTIMATE IS 15,685,000
BALES OF COTTON
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8.—A gov-
ernment production estimate of 15,-
685,000 bales, the highest September
cotton forecast since 1915, today gave
little comfort to the grower.
The estimate was 101,000 bales
above the August forecast of 15,584,-
000 bales, which caused immediate
price declines on the exchanges, rang-
ing from $6 to $7.50 a bale.
Private estimates on the^ average
were almost 1,000,000 bales lower
than the August forecast, but since
then they have revised their pi'edic-
tions upwax’d, on the whole averag-
ing about 15,100,000 bales.
The figux-e on the ax-ea left for
harvest in today’s report was 40,889,-
000 acres as compared to the 40,129,-
000 acres used as the basis for the
August production estimate.
Lord Cecil of Great Britain, For-
eigu Minister Briand of France and
Foreign Minister Grandhi of Italy
were among those who advocated the
adherence of the Latin American
country.
M. Briand, applauded as he ascend-
ed the platform said: “We all have
deplored the regrettable mistake of
omitting Mexico in the first place, and
we all are happy now to rectify that
lamentable erx'or. France will hail
with joy the day Mexico joins our
work.”
While the statesmen were paying
tribute to Mexico, her observer at
Geneva, Max*tinez de Alba, walked
about the auditorium smiling and
shaking hands with the leading dele-
gates.
Daily Leader 3 Months for $1.00
THE ROADSIDE MAIL BOX
(Boston News Bux'eau)
The United States post office de
pax'tment recently made a ruling that
all rural xxxail boxes must be placed
on the right side of the road in the
direction the mail man drives. This
was done because motor tx'affic makes
it dangerous for mail carriers to pull
over to the left side of the x*oad. On
the other hand, protests are being
made to the department that if this
order is enforced it is going to mean
many injuries and deaths, especially
to women and children crossing the
road to get their mail.
certified check of 3% of bid that suc-
cessful contractor will exxter contract
and make surety bond. Owner re-
sexwes the right to reject any or all
bids.
J. C. Abney, Mayor.
No. 60 and 66.
GERMANY CONTRACTS
TO BUY 200,000 TONS
OF WHEAT FROM U. S.
BERLIN, Sept. 8.—The Telegrafen
Union said today that the German*
government had concluded a contract
to buy 200,000 tons of wheat from the
United States farm board, deliveries
to be made during the second half of
the cuxwent agricultural year as from
next Jonuary.
As an intermediary organization to
accept deliveries the government
designated the Deutche Getreide Han-
dels Gesellschaft.
NOTICE—The Lampasas Fire De-
partment will receive a benefit from
the Bowling Alley on Thursday of this
Week. Come down and enjoy the
sport and your patronage will be ap-
preciated by the firemen. (d60)
Copy furnished to the printer
should be written only on one side of
the paper, otherwise a part of it i*
likely to be overlooked. PLEASE re-
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