The Lampasas Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, February 12, 1932 Page: 6 of 8
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TAMMANY UNCERTAIN AS
CONVENTION APPROACHES
NEW YORK, Feb. 10.—Tammany
Hall, which traditionally goes into po-
litical battles with .a united front, is
at present split three ways as the
Democratic national convention ap-
proaches.
New York State will cast 94 votes
when the balloting for a presidential
nominee begins in Chicago, and 48 of
these delegates will be from New York
City.
Normally Tammany controls most
of these 48, but political observers
believe as things now stand, that no
one candidate can count on even a
majority of this bloc on the first bal-
lot.
'Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt has
■aroused the ire of many Tammany
leaders by not squelching the Hof-
stadter legislative committee investi-
gation into the Tammany municipal
government. Nevertheless, he has a
sizable following in the organization.
His campaign manager, James A.
Farley, chairman of the Democratic
state committee, is a Tammany man
and has his own supporters within
the organization.
John F. Curry, Tammany leader, is
a personal friend of the Governor, but
he has not an organized bloc. So far
not a Tammany chieftain has publicly
■commented upon the 1928 standard
bearer’s announcement he would run
again if nominated.
Smith three years ago opposed Cur-
ry’s election as successor to Judge
George W. Olvany, Tammany leader.
The third bloc is the one which
swears allegiance to Mayor James J.
Walker.
The mayor looms large on the Tam-
many horizon. He heads an army of
130,003 city employes and controls ex-
tensive Tammany patronage. He will
have much to say about which presi-
dential aspirant is to get a large per-
centage of New York City’s votes in
the convention.
Walker and Roosevelt have been at LUBBOCK, Feb. 11.—Four mem-
swords’ points since investigation of kers 0f Texas Technological col
the Walker government began. Some ! jeg.e facuity were designated Wed-
indication of the feel-ing between them i ne3(jay by Rev. R. C. Campbell, Bap-
was seen in the mayor’s failure to j pastor, as being “guilty of teach-
COLLEGE EDITOR FIRED
FOR WRITING ON THE ‘STU-
PIDITY OF MARRIAGE’
DANVILLE, Ky., Feb. 10.—Charles
J. Thurmond’s views on matrimony,
which were published under the cap-
tion, “Stupidity of Marriage,” have
cost him his job as editor of the Cento,
student publication at Centre College.
The February 5 issue of the weekly
paper overnight became much in de-
mand and the office was swamped for
requests for extra copies. In his edi-
torial, entitled “Stupidity of Mar-
riage,” he wrote that marriage “ends
in wrecked lives and the casting of
ugly blemishes on young lives having
to come in contact with it.”
His editoi’ial concluded with a sug-
gestion that “if a boy and girl are
attracted on a purely physical basis,
they may live together so long as the
physical attraction lasts, and, when
it fades, let them no longer torture
each other by being foi'ced to pre-
tend happiness together.”
At a meeting of the college dis-
cipline committee called Tuesday by
Dr. Charles J. Turck, president of the
college, Thurmond was ousted as edi-
tor. The paper’s staff named Larry
Woboril to succeed him. Thurmond’s
supporters claimed the storm was
caused by “class politics,” but their
protests were to no avail.
Thurmond, a resident of Danville
and a senior in the college, will be
permitted to remain in school and no
further disciplinary action is plan-
ned. In a statement he said there
was no one in college “who is stricter
in his personal morals than I am,”
and stated, “I do not practice what
is expressed as a possible solution to
unsatisfactory mai’riage.” He said he
had previously announced in the Cento
he would present his views on mar-
riage in a later issue, and that no at-
tempt was made to stop him.
FOUR NAMED IN ATHEISM CLAIM
CHINESE AND JAPS MASS
TROOPS FOR FIGHT TO FINISH
greet the Governor as he filed past
him at the funeral of John R. Voorhis,
* _ Tammany grand sachem, Monday.
Likewise, it is not secret that Wal-
ker and Smith are no longer close po-
litical friends. An intimate acquaint-
ance of the mayor said the only thing
Smith and Walker have had in com-
mon recently has been their mutual
■desire to keep Roosevelt from “sew-
ing up” the nomination before the
convention.
PATMAN’S CHARGE
AGAINST MELLON IS
FORMALLY DROPPED
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—Impeach-
ment charges against Andrew W. Mel-
lon were dropped by the House Judi-
ciary Committee Wednesday as the
veteran financier prepared to step
from the Treasury direction into Eng-
land’s Court of St. James.
Upon this exchange of duties and
Mellon’s impending resignation from
the Cabinet to take the oath of Am-
bassador, the twenty-three lawyer
Representatives based their agree-
ment that nothing justified further
proceedings.
Chairman Sumners announced his
committee was unanimous on this
point, viewing impeachment proceed-
ings as virtually equivalent to an
ouster suit.
Representative Patman (Dem.) of
Texas sponsored the charges to obtain
Mellon’s removal from the Treasury
post he occupied eleven years.
But the committee was not unani-
mous on the actual resolution adopt-
ed, and during the two-hour meeting
the voices of members in heated dis-
cussion often could be heard from
behind the closed door.
The vote on the resolution finally
adopted was 14 to 4. This resolution,
-after setting forth Mellon’s appoint-
ment as Ambassador, his confirma-
tioo by the Senate, and leaving a
space for the date of his resignation
from the Treasury, said:
“Be it resolved by this committee
that the further consideration of the
said charges against the said Andrew
W. Mellon as Secretary of the Treas-
ury be and the same are hereby dis-
continued.”
Sumners formally will report this
resolution to the House by direction
of the committee.
ing atheism and infidelity to students.1
One was a department head.
In a secret conference with Presi-
dent Paul W. Horn, the pastor reit-
erated the accusations he had made
from his pulpit. Names of the pro-
fessors involved were withheld until
President Horn could investigate the
charges.
“Rev. Campbell made certain state-
ments and named certain professors
as guilty of the charges he made,”
President Horn said after the confer-
ence. “We have both agreed to with-
hold the names for the present. A
joint statement will be issued soon.”
President Horn- said his proposed
investigation would include hearings
with students and the accused pro-
fessors.
SPEAKER GARNER
RECEIVES ROGERS
AT WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—Will
Rogers, the humorist, today called on
his old friend, Speaker Gamer, at
the capitol.
Entering the Texan’s office, he in-
vited a troop of congressmen trail-
ing him to have some of the speak-
er’s cigars.
Passing the box around, he said:
“All are invited, but the republicans.”
Speaker Garner came in, hailed the
Oklahoman and submitted to the
photographers.
After a few exchanges, Garner went
about his business and Rogers held a
reception in the outer office, where he
was greeted by many members of
the house.
Among some of the things he told
them were:
Keep your ships and soldiers out
of China:
“The more you send, the more trou-
ble you will likely have.
“I don’t think we ought to get into
that mess over there.”
SHANGHAI, Feb. 11.—The great-
est concentration of guns, manpower
and ammunition of theft entire Shang-
hai-Woosung engagement was in
progress this morning as the Japan-
ese and the Chinese got ready to
fight it out to the finish.
The troops were massed about the
Woosung Forts, where the Chinese
have stood up for a week under al-
most continued bombardment and
aerial attack.
The concentration movement was
carried out under the cover of dark-
ness last night and early this morn-
ing. Passengers aboard steamships
from Japan that docked at Shanghai
late Wednesday said they had passed
a dozen Japanese troopships. Neu-
tral sources here received a code mes-
sage from Japan saying two army
divisions about 20,000 men, had em-
barked for the front.
The Chinese got ready for the big
push by draining their reserve troops
from trench lines to the rear of their
positions in Chapei.
In the sector about the North Sta-
tion only two lines of trenches re-
mained manned. Hitherto three or
four lines have held full complements
of men. A gap of half a mile existed
between the Chinese front and the
support lines after the shift had been
completed.
Japanese field pieces, unloaded from
ships in the Whangpoo wei’e picked
up from the Shanghai docks by motor
trucks that rumbled away to the north.
Both Japanese and Chinese combed
the Shanghai area for whatever ma-
terials of war they could lay their
hands on.
Japanese (trucks pushed bales of
American cotton into the Woosung
sector for use in protecting strong
points from Chinese machine gun bul-
lets and artillery shells. These bales,
ideal for the purpose, were picked up
at Japanese-owned cotton mills along
the edge of the Whangpoo—mills
which have been closed since the out-
break of the Shanghai trouble, throw-
ing more than 40,000 Chinese out of
work.
The Chinese had to content them-
selves with less serviceable materials
of war. They carted great quantities
of wooden beams and iron into the
Woosung area and even requisitioned
washboards with which to build shel-
ter roofs and to buttress the sides of
their trenches. Chinese troops went
through villages on, the outskirts of
Shanghai, where usually most of this
city’s washing is done, and helped
themselves.
While the Chinese were massing
every available military unit in the
Woosung sector word came from Can-
ton that extensive preparations were
going on to back up the Nineteenth
Route Army, which has borne the
brunt of the fighting thus far.
These Canton advices said guns and
ammuriition had (been shipped and
that General Chen Chi-Tang, comman-
der in chief of the First Army, had
promised additional financial support
for Generals Tsai Ting-Kai and Chiang
Kwang-Nai, the defenders of Shang-
hai, to whom he already has sent $25,-
000 in gold.
LIGHT RAIN WEDNESDAY NIGHT
The rainfall here Wednesday night
amounted to .18 of an inch andYhere
was much cooler weather Thursday
following this rain. It has always
been said that if there is thunder in
February there will be frost on the
same date in April, and if that is true
we will have frost on the 11th of
April this year. These old signs
sometimes hit and sometimes fail and
the surest sign is like the Indian’s
sign of rain—cloudy all around and
pouring down in the middle.
—Local Market Report—
Below are the prices paid by local
buyers for the various products on
Thursday of this week. These prices
are subject to change each day.
Grain.
Oats ...................... 15c to 16c bushel
Shell Corn ........................ 32c bushel
Barley ....................20 to 25c bushel
Wheat....................40c to 45c bushel
Maize .................. 40c to 45c hundred
Poultry.
Fryers ....................9c to 11c pound
Hens...........................7c to 9c pound
Roosters .............................. 4c pound
Turkeys ................................ 9c pound
Eggs (candled* ....................7c dozen
General.
Cream ................................ 11c pound
Green Hides ....................l%c pound
Cotton middling basis....5% to 5.85c
Cotton Seed................ $10.00 per ton
Pecans .................... 3c to 3$£c pound
RED RIVER BRIDGE
APPEAL IS DROPPED
AUSTIN, Feb. 10.—Judge W. F.
Robertson of Travis County District
Court announced Wednesday that the
Red River Bridge Company had with-
drawn its appeal from the unfavor-
able verdict in its suit to collect $165,-
000 damages from the Texas High-
way Department.
The company sought a judgment in
connection with the construction by
Texas and Oklahoma of a free pas-
sage over Red River, connecting Deni-
son and Durant, Okla., pai'alleling a
toll structure owned by the company.
It was claimed that the Texas com-
mission entered into a series of con-
tracts designed to reimburse the com-
pany for claimed losses and to pur-
chase the toll bridge.
SPANISH WAR VETERANS TO
OPEN ENCAMPMENT JUNE 12
N. Y. SOLON PROPOSES
BONUS FOR 50 AND 75
YEARS OF MARRIAGE
ALBANY, N. Y., Feb. 10.—New
York state would pay a bonus of $100
to couples celebrating their fiftieth
wedding anniversary, and $250 on their
seventy-fifth anniversary, under a
bill introduced Wednesday by Sena-
tor William L. Love, Brooklyn Demo-
crat.
“In this jazz age of reckless mar-
riage and easy divorce, I believe it
would be a good plan for the state
to reward couples who have braved
the tempests of life together for 50
or 75 years,” Love said.
Daily Leader 3 Months for $1.00
CAVE RIVALING CARLSBAD
FOUND IN WEST TEXAS
STUDENT PAPER DENIES ATHE-
ISM TAUGHT AT TECH
LUBBOCK, Feb. 10.—An editorial
written for publication in the Torea-
dor, student newspaper at Texas
Tech, asserts the paper has failed to
find a student who will admit he has
been taught directly atheism or in-
fidelity at the institution.
It described as “unfounded, illogical
and uncalled for” allegations of the
Rev. R. C. Campbell, Lubbock min-
ister, that atheism and infidelity were
taught at Texas Tech.
FINISHED STEERS SELL AT
$5.75 ON YARDS HERE
A load of steers that drew more
than the usual amount of attention
was sold at Fort Worth Wednesday.
They were bred and fed by A. M.
Oglesby, Hamilton, and set a new top
of $5.75 for heavy beeves. The ship-
ment consisted of 20 head and they
averaged 1,382 pounds.
Oglesby accompanied the shipment
to market and said they had been on
feed for more than five months. The
major portion of the feed had been
grown on his farm.
Some of the steers showed distinct
Shorthorn markings, while others
were crossbred Shorthom-Herefords.
Considering their weight, they were
very smooth and would have done
credit to any feeder’s efforts.—Fort
Worth Star-Telegram.
SWEETWATER, Feb. 10.—Dates
for the annual state encampment of
the United Spanish War Veterans
have been set for June 12 to 15 in-
clusive, by George Green Camp No.
48 of this city, Thomas H. Chilton,
commander, with the approval of De-
partment Commander Henry F. Gey-
er, San Antonio, the department and
various other camps of the State.
The board of city development here
is planning on an old-fashioned West
Texas “chuck” wagon barbecue for the
more than 1,000 delegates and guests
who will attend the Sweetwater meet-
ing. Sweetwater won the honors of
entertaining the 1932 meeting over
San Antonio, last year, when invita-
tions were extended by the Board of
City Development, coupled with every
service and civic organization in the
city. Over 600 members were in at-
tendance at the 1931 meeting. The
American Legion Gold Medal Band
will be the official band during the
four-day session.
Lampasap Weekly Leader 1 Year $1.5#
TOWN ABOLISHES ALL
JTAXES; LIGHT, WATER
PLANTS PAY COSTS
TORRINGTON, Wyo., Feb. 10.—
Torrington is to be a taxpayers’ Uto-
pia in 1932 for under a budget being
prepared by city officials Wednesday,
not a cent of taxes will have to be
levied for city purposes.
The reason? The municipal fund,
maintained with proceeds from the
city light and water systems, will be
sufficient to operate all departments
of the city government for the year,
city officials announced.
In the past two years there was a
15 per cent reduction in rates for
electricity and $22,000 in bonded in-
debtedness was paid. j
LANGTRY, Feb. 11.—Blasting on
the new highway 3 grade has reveal-
ed a gTeat underground cave which
has the appearance of a second Carls-
bad cavern.
Stalactites as large as their bodies
rained about investigators who climb-
ed 60-foot cliffs and threaded strange
tunnels to explore the cavern for
1,000 feet.
The newly-discovered cavern is not
far from where Judge Roy Bean, “the
law west of the Pecos,” dispensed his
world-famous justice many years ago.
THROWS WRENCH INTO
MACHINE OF HOLDUPS
HOUSTON, Feb. 10.—A. W. Bang,
taxicab driver, threw a monkey wrench
into the machine of two supposed
holdup men last night.
Bank told police two men in a green
coupe attempted to force his cab to
the curb.
He said he threw a monkey wrench
into the windshied of the robber’s
car and they fled.
Ed Earnest of Long Beach, Calif.,
and Miss Glendora Earnest of Phoe-
nix, Ariz., arrived in Lampasas Wed-
nesday night to visit their mother,
Mrs. J. W. Earnest and other rela-
tives. Mrs. Ed Earnest stopped off
at Mineral Wells and will come to
Lampasas later.
As we understand it, Germany would
manage to get along if she could bor-
row from Peter to pay Paul without
paying Paul—Weston Leader.
Thp way clamorous minorities are
calling for billions in relief appro-
priations, they must think congress
meets on Capital Hill.—Norfolk Vir-
ginia-Pilot. Uu..i
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