The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. [28], No. [121], Ed. 1 Saturday, July 25, 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
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
(Payable in Advance)
One month........................................$ *40
Three months .................-................$1.00
One year ............ .........................$4.00
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ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE
Estate of John Graber, deceased,
In Co. Court Lampasas Co., Texas.
May Term, 1931.
Notice is hereby given that I, Tom
Richey, Administrator of the estate
of John Graber, deceased, will on the
fourth day of August, 1931, being the
first Tuesday in said month of August,
at the courthouse door in Lampasas
County, Texas, in town of Lampasas,
sell at public auction to the highest
bidder the following described tract
or parcel of land, belonging to said
estate to-wit: 771 acres more or less
out of the Abel L. Eaves survey be-
longing to estate of John Graber, de-
ceased, to be sold for cash to the
highest bidder.
Witness my hand this the 11th day
of July, 1931.
TOM RICHEY, Administrator,
Estate of John Graber, deceased. (d3t)
nothing to do with that much mofiey.”
The man is said to have taken it
back and informed the women that he
worked at a nearby wholesale gro-
cery company, and suggested that he
take the package to his “boss” for
advice. Shortly hejis said to have re-
turned and excitedly declared the pack-
age contained $12,000 in $1,000 bills.
My boss says for each of us to
put up $1,000 earnest money and he
will divide the money between the
three of them,” the man is declared to
have said. “I will have to pay him
a commission, but you just leave that
to me. He is my boss and I know
how to handle it.”
The Simms woman said she did not
like the looks of it, but she figured
that a third of $12,000 was $4,000,
and she decided to take a chance. She
said she went home and wrote a check
and the man and the Williams woman
went to the bank and received the
money from her.
They separated and the Simms wo-
man saw them no more until Wed-
nesday, when she faced them at the
detectives’ office.
BILL OUTLAWING SALE OF DI-
LUTED GASOLINE INTRODUCED
CONFIDENCE GAME
LANDS FOUR IN JAIL
JUST WHAT IT MEANS
(Houston Chronicle)
So easy it is for some people and
newspapers to cry for the farm board
to hold all its wheat off the market,
and thereby help the farmer
Let’s overlook the fact that most of
those doing the crying have consist-
ently opposed every specific measure
ever proposed for federal aid to the
, farmer; ^nd (conveniently overlook,
! also, the fact that the board has an-
! nounced that not more than one-fourth
Dallas, Texas ,July 24.—Senator
George Purl of Dallas, announced
Friday that the passage of legisla-
tion to outlaw the sale of diluted
gasoline in Texas would be sought
during the present session of the leg-
islature.
He expressed the belief that the
gasoline tax law passed by the forty-
first legislature could be amended as
a conservation measure to comply
with the governor’s special session ob-
jective. .
Purl sai dhis action was prompted
by recent investigations which reveal-
ed that certain unscrupulous distri-
butors of mortor fuels and oils were
selling mixtures of gasoline and kero-
sene to the public as pure gasoline
In so doing, they escaped payment
of part of the 4-cent gasoline tax
since kerosene is tax free. The motor-
ist, however, buys the mixture as
gasoline and pays the full tax.
TRAFFIC SIGNALS
(Belton Jumal)
Just yesterday the shock absorber
of The Journal discussed with the
mayor the proposition of installing
traffic signals at the principal street
crossings of Belton. This afternoon
a gentleman asked us in language
unbecoming a minister why it was
Belton didn’t have traffic signals.
Ordinarily, we can give a satisfac-
tory answer to any question the hu-
man mind can devise, but, taken by
surprise, as we were by the gentle-
(ban Antonio express; ' mavket this year, and then only in
Falling for the time-worn pigeon Qnpli n maT1T1RV as not to deDreSs pri-
dropping game” cost Mary Lee Simms,
of its holdings will be placed on the) man using the broken French, we
negro, 514 South Monumental street,
$1,000, and four negroes were under
arrest Wednesday afternoon and
charged in complaints filed before
Justice of the Peace John R. Shook
with theft of $1,000.
The defendants are: Willie Lee
Blanks, Fort Worth; a woman kno
as “Blondy” Williams, Fort Wo
W. G. (Doc) Robert and Cameron
Booker, both of San Antonio.
(San Antonio Express)
such a manner as not to depress pri-
ces, and that not a bushel of farm
wheat is now going on the market.
And after overlooking all these more
or less interesting and pertinent facts,
just as most assailants of the farm
board do, let’s do a little calculating
on the cost to the government, and
therefore to the taxpayers, of this
proposed wheat holding movement.
If the farm board has 250,000,000
bushels of wheat, as is generally be-
Mer, Doth OI san | lievedj the storage charges alone on
The Simms woman told officers she , ,______, , „„„ nnn _
put up the $1,000 as “earnest money”
to await division of $12,000 which was
in a package “found” at the Missouri
Pacific station. After she deposited
the “earnest fund” the others disap-
peared, she said.
According to a story told by the
woman to Paul Massey, negro detec-
tive, the first approach was made by
Roberts, who called at her home sev-
eral times, posing as a “hoodoo doc-
tor,” and offering to tell her fortune/
When she refused all overtures,
“Blondy” Williams showed up under
the name of Lizzie May Williams, she
said, and told about looking for a
nice quiet place to stop because she
had $1,200 she wore in a belt and was
afraid to trust strangers. She had
been sent to the Simms home by per-
sons in New Iberia, La.
Monday, July 13, she and the Wil-
liams woman went to the depot. While
there, a man was seen to pick up a
package and the Williams woman im-
mediately asked him what is was. The
man made signs of secrecy and mo-
tioned to the woman to follow him.
“Let’s open this package and divide
what it contains,” the man said.
He handed the package to the Wil-
liams woman, it was declared, and
she merely peeped into it and gasped.
“It’s full of $100 bills,” she cried.
“Here, take it back. I don’t want
BILIOUS m
“I have used Black-
Draught . . . and have
not found anything
that could take its
place. I take Black-
Draught for bilious-
ness. When I get bili-
ous, I have a nervous
headache and a ner-
vous, trembling feeling
that unfits me for my
work. After I take a
few doses of Black-
Draught, I get all
right. When I begin
to get bilious, I feel
tired and run-down,
and then the headache
and trembling. But
Black-Draught re-
lieves all this.”—h. o.
Hendrix, Homerville, Go.
For indigestion, con-
stipation, biliousness,
take ■•)?«
Thed Fords
BLACK-
DRAUGHT
that wheat amount to nearly $50,000,-
000 a year. This is based on the as-
sertion of grain men that an average
charge on storing a bushel of wheat
is about 1 cent for 25 days, or 20
cents a year.
In addition, there should be added
interest on the investment, making
about $5,000,000 a year more. And
there is the deterioration of the grain
to be considered.
In other words, the advice to the
farm board that it should hold all its
wheat off the market is a request that
it contribute some $75,000,000 to the
wheat trade this year.
Whether that would do any. good,
whether the board should do it in
view of its solemn warning that it
would not be responsible for condi-
tions in case of an increase in acre-
age, whether the taxpayers are will-
ing to bear the burden, there should
at least be a clear understanding of
just what is being asked of the board;
an understanding that the request is
not merely one of changing market-
ing policy, but of sacrificing $75,-
000,000.
couldn’t frame an answer right off
the reel. However, after considering |
the inquiry, we decided one of two j
reasons are responsible for the lack <
of the much-needed traffic signals:
the city is either too poor right at
this time to install and maintain pro-
per signals, or the city is not large
enough to justify their installation.
The Journal believes that Belton
ought to have at least three traffic
signalsT' on Main Street at 1st Ave-
nue, Central Avenue and Walter St.,
to regulate local and tourists traffic
which tears through the city like a
bat out of hades with no regard for
the rights of others or the possible
consequences of their reckless driving.
This paper believes further that no
“U” turns should be permitted at the
intersections named, nor on East Cen-
tral Avenue at the intersection of
East and Penelope streets.
Belton may not be large enough
and with sufficient income to justify
the installation of traffic signals,
but it is possible right now to stop
“U” turns at the street intersections
named, and possibly save many peo-
ple from getting busted wide open
and their cars demolished, and pre-
vent walking pedestrians being knock-
ed into Abraham’s presence without
warning’.
I
Women who need a tonic should
take C-A-RDUL Used over 50 years.
Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Terry and
Mr. and Mrs. Clint Terry and little
son left Saturday afternon for Cor-
pus Christi where they will visit for
a time and probably visit in other
points before returning home.
AMNESIA CAR VICTIM
DEAD OF PNEUMONIA
Marshall, Texas, July 24.—Thomas
Scott Goolsby, whose memory was be-
lieved to have been restored by a
shock suffered in an auotmobile last
week, died in a hospital here today of
pneumonia.
Goolsby had been unable to recall
past events of his life after an attack
four years ago by, robbers. His par-
ents, Dr. R. C. Goolsby and his wife,
who came to his bedside from their
home in Georgia, said the patient re-
cognized them from the first since
the attack.
Other physicians had said they be-
lieved his memory would have been re-
stored had he survived injuries suf-
fered in the accident which occurred
near here and in which another per-
son was killed and two others injur-
ed.
22 JOBLESS PAID
$2.00 BY
MAGISTRATE
New York, July 24.—Twenty-two
jobless men who slept in Central
Park last night—and it’s against the
law to sleep in Central Park—were
paid $2.00 each by Magistrate Got-
tlieb today.
“These men are not ordinary bums,’’
Magistrate Gottlieb said. “I will sus-
pend sentence on all of them.”
The magistrate had a court attend-
ant pass two $1.00 bills to each man.
BRIDGE WORKER FALLS
Llano, Texas, July 24.—J. R. Deck-
er, a workman on the Llano River
bridge, which is being repaired, suf-
fered a badly fractured wrist and an
injured ankle when he fell from the
bridge, about 35 feet, to the rocks
below late Thursday afternoon.
Daily Leader 3 months for $1.0#
LOTTERY BROADCASTING
OKLAHOMA PEN WILL
REDUCE GUARDS THIRD
McAlester, Oklahoma, July 24.—An
immediate economy move that will
involve discharging of one-third of
the guards at State’s penitentiary was
announced here today by Warden Sam
Brown.
“I am going to cut down everywhere
I can and show Governor Murray that
this institution can be run economical-
ly and efficiently,” he said.
Fifty guards will be dismissed with
a saving of from $4000 to $5000 a
month, Brown asserted.
Basis for retention of guards, he
said, would be the efficiency of each
man.
This is newspaper shop talk but it
might be of general interest anyway.
It’s all about a discussion that is
taking place in the newspaper trade
publications relative to the lottery
laws.
It is well known to pastmasters,
newspaper men and most advertisers
that the postal laws are exceedingly
strict in forbidding publication of
news or advertisements pertaining to
raffles, games of chance, guessing
contests or any other scheme that
Uncle Sam has always regraded as
falling under^the general heading of
lotteries. Such schemes are declared
by the postoffice department as “in-
imical to the public interest.” No
newspaper is permited to go through
the mails if it contains either news or
advertising pertaining to any of the
above.
Recently the Attorney General of
Iowa, has issued orders to all county
attorneys that merchants in any
towns, for instance, dare not give
away prizes such as automobiles to
the persons holding what is known as
ROMANCE AND
REALITY
SOMETIMES, when you turn the pages of a book, your mind
is seeking romance. You long to leave a too-familiar world
... to travel with the speed of thought to far-oif purple lands
... to bathe in tepid, lotus-scented surf.
But your daily paper finds you in a more practical mood.
Interested in real people, in the facts of the day. Looking
for news of things that you may buy and enjoy—here and
now.
You may find in the advertisement just what you want in
the way of a better breakfast food, or a new radio, or an
improved face powder. If the thing fits into your living, is
practical and possible and promising—you are vitally inter-
ested. Because you are reading about yourself!
Today, a great many things that were romantic dreams
only ten years ago are common realities. Life has more color,
more charm, more adventure. And the things that give it
all these may be found in the advertising columns.
Advertising discusses realities'—romantic ones often
enough—but actual articles you can have for your own, new
joys for your family, stepping stones to your happiness.
THE ADVERTISEMENTS IN THIS PAPER ARE WRITTEN
FOR YOU. THEY ARE REAL. THEY ARE
RELIABLE. TAKE THEIR ADVICE.
“the lucky number.” And it is just
too bad for any newspaper that should j
attempt to boost such a gift giving |
enterprise through its columns. j
But does Uncle Sam take similar ■
steps to put a quietus to lottery ad- |
vertising via the radio? Verily, he j
does not! Any radio listener-in
knows that local lotteries are being
advertised over the air in increasing
quantity. Not only that but fake
mediums, numberologists, fortune tel-
lers, clairvoyants and grafters are
working overtime, through broadcast-
ing stations on programs “sponsored”
by this or that concern. No reputable
newspaper would be permitted to car-
ry fake advertisements of this sort
even if it should desire to do so.
Manifestly, there is an injustice
here. A bill which was introduced in
congress recently reads as follows:
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the Unit-
ed States of America in Congress
assembled, That the last sentence of
Section 29 of the Radio Act of 1927,
as amended, is amended to read as
follows: “No person within the jur-
isdiction of the United States shall,
by means of radio communication, (a)
utter any obscene, indecent or profane
language, or (b) announce, advertise,
or conduct a lottery, gift enterprise,
or similar scheme, offering prizes de-
pendent in whole or in part upon lot or
chance or announce or advertise any
list of prizes drawn or awarded by
means of any lottery, gift enterprise,
or similar scheme.”
Newspapers are on the whole in
favor of the passage of that Act. Or,
they desire permission to carry the
same brand <j|f advetising through
their columns that now goes over the
air.
Newspaper men cannot see why, if
Uncle Sam permits this sort of ad-
vertising to clutter up air currents,
he cannot permit the merchants of
their own towns to compete with these
big concerns through gessing con-
tests, raffles or similar gift enter-
prises.
We believe the public sees the in-
justice of the present situation both
to the newspapers of the country and
of the local business houses who are
the goats in the long run.—Register,
Storm Lake, Iowa.
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The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. [28], No. [121], Ed. 1 Saturday, July 25, 1931, newspaper, July 25, 1931; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth906798/m1/4/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lampasas Public Library.