The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 124, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 29, 1939 Page: 4 of 4
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tor operators at city hall were pus-
sled Friday by passengers who seem-
ed afflicted with a jitterbug com-
plex.
Then the operators themselves be-
gan to hop around arid squirm.
Finally they held a solemn—but
fidgety—conclave, then sprinkled a
snowy covering in the cars.
•’Camphor," they explained. “Fleas
got in here.”
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TIRED OF LIVING, HE ADMITS
MURDER SO HE CAN DIE
T. L. Miller of Kerrville was a busi-
ness visitor Friday and Saturday here
in the AAA office.
“HUMAN BOMB” ROBBER
OF KANSAS BANK TAKEN
SECOND OF MAYO
BROTHERS DIES
Washington, July 28. — Senators
learned today that government offi-
cials are negotiating with a number
of foreign countries in an effort to
dispose of surplus cotton, wheat, corn
and other farm products piling up
in this country under government
loans.
Senator Byrnes (D-SC) explained
this as he won speedy approval by
the senate banking committee for
enabling legislation to sell 175,000
bales of government-held cotton to
France and Switzerland.
The bill does not specify cotton but
authorises the secretary of agricul-
ture to sell any surplus agricultural
product on which the govemdent-
controlled commodity credit corpora-
tion has made loans. This would in-
clude wheat and corn.
The sales to France and Switzer-
land would be for military reserves
under an agreement to keep the cot-
ton off the markets for five years
except in time of war or an emerg-
ency. A similar restriction fibured in
the recent agreement to barter 600,-
000 bales of cotton for British rubber.
TWISTER DIVORCES
PORCHES, HOUSES
DRUGGISTS GUN RESULTS IN
CAPTURE OF BANDITS. MOLL
ROOSEVELT STILL
MUM ON 3RD TERM
Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Stokes,
Mrs. W. H. Rathman and Mrs. Reg-
inald Leatherwood returned Friday
from Dallas where they spent the
past week buying fall merchandise
for Stokes Bros A Co. /
Misses Georgia and Jessie Stapp
have returned to their home in San
Angelo after visiting here for sever-
al weeks in the home of their sister
and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. G.
Word Smith.
Miss Fannie Bell Fletcher, who is
employed in the Farm Credit Admin-
istration office here, left Friday for
Sulphur Springs where she will at-
tend the funeral of her grandfather.
Mr. and Mrs. Stone Jones of Hous-
ton are visiting here with his father,
W. H. Jones, and also in the home
of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Wolf and oth-
er relatives.
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Kansas City, July 28.—A druggist’s
quick gunwork resulted in the cap-
ture Friday of two youths, who
robbed him of fl,400 and their girl-
chauffeur.
Charles W. Williams obtained his
revolver and began firing at the flee-
ing bandits as soon , as they left
his, store. Although he did not wound
either of them, he frustrated their
plan of escaping in the car in which
the girl had brought them.
Later police arrested Richard Mi-
lone, 17; Mike J. Mazzuch, 18, and
Helen Endicott, 17, who admitted par-
ticipation in the holdup, according
to officers.
All except $500 was recovered.
DISPOSAL OF FARM
SURPLUSES HINTED
WHEW I ISN’T IT WARM
.FOR CHRISTMASTIME?
Mrs. Alma Johnston and Newell
and Joe Johnston left Saturday ev-
ening for Caldwell where they will
<pend the week end with Mrs. Lou
Haddox and Mrs. Harry Reeves.
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MOST CRIMINALS
UNDER 25 YEARS OF AGE
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V. G. Carroll, budget supervisor
with the WPA, who has been con-
nected with the Lampasas office for
the past three months, was transfer-
red Saturday to the Gatesville office.
Clinton, III., July 28. — Sheriff
Claude Barrett announced Friday that
George Carson, 88, of Wimston, Mo.,
trumped up a story of having slain
a Tom Penderfast lieutenant “be-
cause Carson was tired of living and
wanted to get it over with.”
The Sheriff said Carson will be de-
tained temporarily without charge.
Carson surrendered Wednesday and'
said ho killed Edward L. Schneider, a
Kansas City political figure, whose
body was found in the Missouri River
May 5. Carson’s story was that Sch-
neider had given him a ride in an
automobile and that a struggle en-
sued when the hitchhiker tried to rob
'Schneider. Schneider fell into the
river, Carson said.
Mary Louise Woodruff returned
Saturday night from Santa Rosa,
N. M. where she has spent the past
two months in the home of her
grandmother, Mrs. E. C. Woodruff.
She is the little daughter of Mrs.
Jessie Woodruff and made the trip
from New Mexico by herself.
Austin, July 29.—The greatest sin-
gle age-group in the Texas crime
world is made up of young people
under 25 years of age, state police
noted today from a six-month survey
baaed on fingerprint cards received
by the division of identification and
records.
Of 16,079 persons charged with va-
rious offenses0 ranging from murder
to vagrancy, 38.0 per cent of the male
offenders were under 25 years and
48.2 per cent of the female offend-
ers were under that age.
Because it is the policy of some
agencies not to fingerprint juven-
iles, the percentage of youthful of-
fenders was probably understated,
state police pointed out, but never-
theless more than 17 per cent of the
boys and 18 per cent of the girls were
under 20.
Colonel Homer Garrison, Jr., state
police director, pointed to the fact
that the percentage of young offend-
ers is virtually “fixed”—that is, it
does not vary impressively from one
six-month period to another.
“It’s illuminating, though scarce-
ly reassuring, to follow the progress-
in-crime of these age groups. The
Quannah, Texas, July 28.—Goodlett,
ten miles weot of Quannah in Harde-
man County, was hit by a small cy-
clone at 1 p. m. Friday. Awnings
and porches were ripped from some
of the houses and buildings in the
town of 300. —
One frame store building was moved
ten feet off its foundation. Garages
and smaller outbuildings were par-
tially demolished. One residence house
was damaged considerably. No one
was injured. The area surrounding
Goodlett received half an inch of rain.
The Limpmi Daily Leader
J. H. ABNEY A SON
Herbert J. Abney, Publisher
THE LAMPASAS DAILY LEADER
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Prince Frederick, Md., July 2h.—
Christmas came this week—mjen if it
was hot and muggy and thundery.
The girls at Camp Matoka, unable
to get together in December, held a
midsummer Christmasjcelebration Fri-
day with carols, a lighted tree and
gift-giving.
Other
mented:
Rep. Kleberg: “No other man has
his experience in all branches of
government and is as fell qualified
for the presidency. He has my fullest
support.”
Rep. Poage: “I would of course be
happy to see this great Texan presi-
dent.”
Rep. Luther Johnson: “If Gamer
seeks the nomination I will support
him."
Rep. Gossett: “I have never par-
ticipated in intraparty politics, but
if Garner seeks the nomination,
probably will support him."
Rochester, Minn., July 28.—A per-
petuating medical foundation that
was the dream of a country doctor
70 years ago became a monument
tonight to the healing genius of the
Mayo brothers as persons from all
walks of life paid tribute to the last
of the renowned pair.
As the body of Dr. William M.
Mayo, better known as “Dr. Will,”
was made ready to lie in state, the
board of governers established 10
years ago when the brothers laid
down their surgical instruments con-
tinued to administer the foundation
and clinic.
Dr. Will died in his sleep early
today of a sub-acute performating ul-
cer, an abdominal ailment he had
specialized in treating. He was 78,
and had grieved constantly since th$
death of his partner-brother, Dr.
Charles H. Mayo, in Chicago May
26.
Stricken shortly > after he returned
from a winter vacation in the south-
west, Dr. Will underwent a stomach
operation at the clinic last April, and
never fully recovered.
There is but one Mayo left'to carry
the family name. He is Dr. Charles’
son, Dr. Charles W. Mayo, a surgeon
on the clinic staff whose forty-first
birthday today was saddened by his
uncle’s death. Dr. Charles’ other son,
Dr. JoscjAi G. Mayo, was killed in
an automobile accident in 1986. Their
other children were girls.
But the Mayo tradition is being
carried on. Dr. Will’s two daughters
married surgeons connected with the
clinic. Dr. Waltman Waters, Phoe-
be’s husband, is a director of the
clinic. Dr. Davis C. Balfour, Carrie’s
husband, is the director of the Mayo
foundation.
Funeral services for the elder of
the famed* brothers will be held at
4 p. m. Sunday.
THEY GET WHAT
THEY GO AFTER!
THEY’RE a typical fam-
ily of Leader ad readers.
They know what they
want . . . and they know
just where to look for it!
They’re a happy family, for
they read the Leader ads
that always serve them
well! Get the habit . . .
let the ads that appear in
The Leader guide you as
they have this happy fam-
ily. They have saved lota
of time and money for them
and they can do the same
for you.
LAMFAStoILEADER
Lampasas, Texas
youngsters under 20 are most likely
to steal automobiles. Those under
25 are still mostly engrossed with
crimes against property, but by the
time they are edgjn^ toward 30 they
are being arrested for such crimes
against person as murder, rape, rob-
bery and aggravated assault.”
Car theft, the survey shows, claims
its greatest number of offenders—
40.1 per cent-—in youths under 20.
Slightly more than 25 per cent of
car thieves are between the ages of
20 and 24, and thereafter the per-
centage drops as age increacss until
it dwindles off almost entirely past
middle age.
Burglary rhows the same trend,
although not so decidedly. Percent-
ages for this offense range from 89
per cent for boys under 20 to 24.2
per cent for young men between 20
and 24 and then downward as age
increases.
Although more than 22 per cent
of the offenders arrested for robbery
are youngsters under 20, the percent-
age grows to more than 25 per cent
for the next age-group of 2. to 24,
is still at more than 20 per cent for
young men between 25 and 29, and
declines only to 14.8 per cent for men
between 30 and 34. In other words,
it becomes a sustained career, Col.
Garrison observed.
Murder grows in percentage from
slightly more than 5 per cent for the
youngsters and 9.6 per cent for youths
between 20 and 24 years to 23.5 per
cent for men between 25 and 29 years
of age, 20.6 per cent for those in
their early 30’s, and 14.7 for men
between 35 and 39.
Both drunkenness and driving while
intoxicated are offenses with high
percentages in age groups between
25 and 40.
Among female offenders, prostitu-
tion claims more than 18 per cent
under 20 years, 43 per cent between
20 pnd 24 years, 17 per cent be-
tween 25 and 29 and 13 per cent be-
tween 30 and 34 years. The largest
percentage of women forgers are
those between 25 and 30 years od, and
the largest percentage of petty thieves
are women in the satne age group.
Willards Tablets. Treatment for
Stomach Distress due to excess acid,
at Nichols & Cass. (d)
Rev. and Mrs. M. McConnell of
Brownwood visited here Friday in the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Lank-
ford.
Washington, July 28.—The con-
gressmen from John Nance Gamer’s
district declared his unqualified sup-
port today of the vice president as
a democratic presidential candidate
in 1940.
Representative South, whose dis-
trict includes Gamer’s home town,
Uvalde, issued the following state-
ment:
“Few men in public life have serv-
ed with such distinction and ability
as has John Nance Garner.
“I am for him 100 per cent.’*
Texas congressmen com-
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CONGRBSS TEXANS
BOOSTING GARNER
Nevado, Mo., July 28.—All trace
gone of the daring he displayed in
the “human bomb” robbery of a Can-
ute, Kan., bank, John Thornburg, 26,
submitted meekly to arrest Friday.
The one-time Sunday school teach-
er who boldly forced an old-time
friend to aid him in the $4,600 bank
holdup last March 27, was captured
because a former student in his Bible
class “recognized him.
Police found the young bandit in
a pool hall shortly after Demus
Beckett of Chanute saw him on a
street comer and notified officers. He
was unarmed and offered no resist-
ance. Thornburg reluctantly admit-
ted his identity and also the bank
robbery.
He had only $2.84 with him and
said he had spent the balance of
the loot during four months of
travel.
The Chanute robbery was carried
out with amazing coolness. With 3
sticks of dynamite strapped to his
waist, a detonator in one hand and
a pistol in the other, Thornburg walk-
ed* into the office of Joe Balch, city
attorney and his boyhood friend.
“You’re going to help me rob the
First National Bank,” he announced
calmly.
The two crossed the street to the
bank after Balch tried vainly to
argue the man out of the notion.
Balch explained to Vice President
B. S. Cofer what had occurred, and
the three entered the directors’ room.
There Thornburg demanded $10,-
000 under threat to “blow the place
to hell."
Cofer told the bandit he did not
have that amount of cash on hand
but agreed to give him what money
there was rather than risk an ex-
plosion.
“Get a paper and wrap it up,” he
directed Balch, “you’re going with
me.
He had Balch call a cab, forced
the attorney to accompany him sev-
eral miles <Vt of town and there
took the cab, leaving both Balch and
the drive* by the roadside.
Officers were not summoned until
the two men were safe.
The taxicab was found abandoned
a fevt days Ifcter ’at Fayetteville,,
Arkansas.
Taken to police headquarters here
after his arrest, Thornburg was calm
and polite. He answered most ques-
tions but volunteered no information.
But where shall wisdom be found?
And where is the place of under-
standing?
God understandeth the way thereof,
And He knoweth the place thereof.
Behold, the fear of the Lord, that
is wisdom;
And to depart from evil is under-
standing. Job 28:12,23 28.
Man has acquired skill in every
human enterprise except the high-
est—the knowledge of God. Cordially
your are invited to worship with the
Presbyterian congregation in all the
services of the day.
Sunday school 9:45. Morning wor-
ship 10:45. Evening worship 8 o’clock.
Rev. E. C. Lambert, Minister.
. ...ayiaiLi!—
Washington, July 28.—President
Roosevelt Friday still maintained his
enigmatic silence concerning the
third term.
“Are you prepared to state when
the country can expect a statement
on the third term?” a reported said.
The president smiled and
bluntly no.
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