The Lampasas Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, March 16, 1928 Page: 3 of 8
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Higdon-Senterfitt-Andrew
Announces the completion of the Greatest Stock of Dry Goods, Sho es, Clothing, Ready-to-Wear and Millinery that was ever assem-
bled in their big busy store.
Spring merchandise is beautiful this season—prettier than ever, and during the remainder of March—throughout the entire month—
we are going to put out on tables and counters EXTRA RED HOT SPECIALS! EACH AND EVERY DAY NEW BARGAINS WILL
BE ADDED. IN FACT, EACH DAY WILL BE A DAY OF BARGAINS —FAR BELOW THEIR REGULAR VALUE. COME!
We want to make this March the greatest month of all Spring Seasons, so come often. Every day you will save money.
Right here, and no place else, will you be able to see the real, new things that have been created for the Spring Season.
Do not spend a five-cent piece until you have paid us a visit. March will be the BANNER BARGAIN-GIVING month.
MOTHER FINED FOR
WHIPPING DAUGHTER, 16
Kansas City, Kan., Mar. 9.—Deter-
mined to serve 100 days in jail in
ieu of paying the $100 fine assessed
onight because she gave her 16-year-
ld daughter, Lorene Jones, on old-
ashioned spanking for disobedience,
*rs. Christine Woodside i*etired in
he detention cell of the city jail.
Before being locked up she forbade
er husband to pay the fine, after
urning over to him three diamond
ings which she wore. Her husband
aid he would abide by his wife’s
ishes, but hoped to persuade Judge
red R. White to grant his wife a
arole. The judge said he had not
onsidered a parole. The judge held
hat the spanking was “unwarranted-
severe.”
Lorene was whipped Sunday night
ith a coat hanger when she refused
o tell where she had been in the
amily motor car.
Upon hearing the judge’s decision
rs. Woodside, former snake charmer
nd lion tamer for a carnival, declared
he was unable to pay the fine and if
ecessary, would go to jail.
Approximately 5,000 persons jam-
ed the auditorium in the city hall
here the hearing had been trans-
rred because Judge White’s court
om was too small to accommodate
jam. Several women fainted,
'omen predominated in the crowd,
undreds of persons were turned
ay at the doors and traffic in the
cinity of the building was in a snarl.
In a statement from the bench just
fore he fined Mrs. Woodside, Judge
hite said he believed that from the
jTs statement and the mother’s at-
ude, that the punishment inflicted
d been entirely too severe.
“Parents always have a right to
nish their children,” said the
dge, “but they have no right-to be
utal.”
He also told Mrs. Woodside he be
ved the entire incident might have
en eliminated by the proper appli-
tion of welfare work.
The hearing ended in confusion
en the mother dramatically stated
at she had no money and could not
y the fine.
“I’ll not crawfish, judge,” she said,
11 go to jail first.”
The daughter sobbing: “Do I have
live with her now, judge?” was led
m the court room by Mrs. Inez
ckinnon, her Sunday school teacher,
h whom she has been living since
t Sunday when the whipping occur-
n a dramatic moment before the
ring opened the mother leaned
r toward her daughter and said:
rene, I just want to know if you
nt me to serve a sentence or pay a
, if I am convicted.”
I just want protection from your
elty,” the dry-eyed girl answered,
rtly afterward she broke into
rs and sobbed quietly throughout
trial.
rs. Woodside was dry-eyed and
/avering in her statement that' the
had lied to her and was punished
lying.
yandotte high school teachers tes-
d the girl was an honor student,
e reproach in her conduct, sweet
easily handled. Miss MacKinnon,
a high school teacher, said: “She
n excellent pupil, very sweet and
fine, spiritual attitude.” Her
ol principal said her grades were
of the very best and deportment' splen-
did.
Elizabeth Eason, high school nurse,
said marks which she described as
“angry looking,” showed on the girl's
body for several days after the whip-
ping.
The mother freely admitted whip-
ping Lorene, but said the punishment
was warranted and not severe, and
that she would whip Lorene again for
disobedience and for lying. Asked if
she would take the girl back, Mrs.
Woodside said her divorced husband,
J. H. Jones of Johnstown, Colo., had
written for the girl and that “it is
his time now.”
The girl testified that she deserved
punishment often and got it, but that
it had become too severe.
FOR SALE—Full blood RhQde Is-
land red eggs at $1.00 per setting. See
or call over rural telephone at Adams-
ville.—Mrs. H. S. Jackson. (w)
QUEEN CROWNED AT
FAT STOCK SHOW
CHAUFFEUR ADMITS
KILLING FAMILY
TEXAS TO BE REPUBLICAN
IF AL SMITH NOMINATED
The fourteenth queen of the South-
western Exposition and Fat Stock
Show was crowned Friday night be-
fore a capacity crowd that filled the
coliseum in Fort Worth. The fortu-
nate young lady to have this honor
bestowed upon her was Miss Pansy
Walker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B.
S. Walker of Breckenridge and Fort
Worth.
The setting of the Chinese castle
and courtyard was pronounced by
many to be the most elaborate ever
seen in a stock show pageant. This
pageant and coronation are arranged
as the formal opening of the stock
show each year.
In a description of the costumes of
the participants in the affair in the
Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the follow-
ing paragraph was said of the cos-
tume worn by Miss Emily Bailey,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ross Bailey
of this city:
Miss Emily Bailey, maid to Her
Highness, princess of the House of
White, of Cisco, wore a green satin
skirt, fitting tightly from waist to
knees and then flaring in wide cir-
cular effect. Her green cape was
edged with gold braid, hand-painted
with gilt designs. Her girdle was of
metallic cloth with long panels in
front, heavily jeweled. She wore san-
dals and a headdress of silver cloth
with designs of rich oriental colors.
Her costume followed the patterns of
the Princess Irene’s dress, represent-
ing the country of Egypt.
Sulphur Springs, Tex., Mar. 12.—A
statement signed by Newton Byrnes,
24-years-old, charged with slaying
Mrs. W. J. Juergens, her daughter,
Myrna, 13, and her mother, Mrs.
Rosa Schirra, in San Angelo, Texas,
in which he admitted he had killed
them, indicated a quarrel about a
check and money was one of the
motives.
Byrnes was arrested here and
made a statement to officers today.
After the statement was put in writ-
ing, acknowledged by him, Sheriff Bob
Hewett and a deputy left here with
Byrnes. Their destination was said
to be Fort Worth, where the hatchet
used in the slaying had been taken
for photographing of fingerprints.
Byrnes said he was born in Bir-
mingham, Alabama. He had been
with the Juergens family for about
four years and was the family chauf-
feur. The killing was on March 3,
the statement revealed. The bodies
were found Sunday, March 11, when
neighbors called officers to investi-
gate. The two women and the girl
had been hacked and stabbed. The
accused man’s statement said that the
quarrel started Saturday, March 3.
Saturday night Byrnes stayed at a
San Angelo hotel where he had gone
in the family automobile and later
he went back to the Juergens’ home
and covered the bodies of the three
with blankets and other bed clothes.
Then he drove a short distance out of
town whe^e he left the automobile.
After going to several other cities
Byrnes said he went to Sulphur
Springs where he arrived last Thurs-
day night. He was staying at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Lindsey,
friends of the Juergens, when a tele-
phone message from San Angelo ad-
vised of the discovery of the three
bodies. A short time later, Byrnes
was arfested.
Byrnes said when the argument
with Mrs. Juergens first began over
the check he struck her with his fist.
Then he grabbed a hatchet and struck
her again, he said. The girl, Myrna,
was in the room and he next attack-
ed her, Byrnes declared. Shortly
afterwards he said he struck and kill-
ed Mrs. Schirra.
When he went back to cover up
the bodies Byrnes said he ransacked
the building, got $40 in cash and sev-
eral diamond rings. Then he left
in the family automobile.
MURDER PLOTS FOR BANKERS’
REWARDS SEEN BY RANGERS
Austin, Tex., Mar. 12.—Asserting
that a murder machine had sprung up
in the state as a result of the $5,000
bank bandit reward of the Texas
Bankers’ association, Ranger Captain
Frank Hamer today charged that sev-
eral bank robberies were frameups,
and that innocent men had been mur-
dered to obtain the $5000 rewards.
The ranger captain, in a lengthy
signed statement declared that he
knew the identity of the men who ar-
ranged one of the robberies and re-
ceived a private split on the reward.
His name will be given to the proper
authorities, he said.
Weekly Leader, $1.50 Year.
Said Brown to Jones, “Your new suit fits fine,
I’d surely give a lot if.it were mine.”
Said Jones, “That new stuff is all the bunc,
Wifey found this in the attic in a trunk.
It’s a last year’s suit that I’d thrown away,
She just had it cleaned and pressed today.”
(COPR.. J. T. HUNTER)
LAMPASAS LAUNDRY AND DRY CLEANERS
Cleaner Phone 71 Laundry Phone 117
HOUSE DEFEATS PROPOSAL
FOR DATE CHANGING
Washington, Mar. 9.—The house
Friday rejected a proposed amend-
ment to the constitution to abolish
“lame duck” sessions of congress and
change the presidential inaugural
date.
The vote was 209 for and 157 as
opposed to the proposal. This was less
than the necessary two-thirds required
for approval of amendments to the
constitution.
The house action definitely kills the
proposal so far as the present con-
gress is concerned.
The amendment, known as the
White-Norris resolution, was approv-
ed earlier in the session by the senate
in a somewhat different form.
As finally voted upon by the house,
the amendment would have had con-
gress convene on Jan. 4, following the
November elections, thus abolishing
sessions in which sit members defeat-
ed at the earlier elections.
BROWN WOOD RAISES
$12,000 FOR C. OF C.
Brownwood, Tex., Mar. 10.—Volun-
teer subscriptions to the chamberof
commerce budget totaled $12,000 in
three days, it was announced today.
There was no soliciting.
(H. A. Ivy in Dallas News)
General U. S. Grant is credited with
the declaration that “the democrats
can always be counted on to act the
fool at the right time.” It appears
that the state democratic committee
has gone the general one better and
acted the fool at the “wrong time,”
but it is hoped that they will mend
their ways before it becomes a habit
with them to act the fool “all the
time.”
The day of “brass-collar-yellow-
dog” democracy is passing, and if the
national democratic convention should
nominate as its standard bearer Gov.
A1 (cohol) Smith or any other man
of a like record it can not hope to
retain its hold on the bulk of the
party’s rank and file with whom moral
considerations are paramount.
Zealous wets are boosting Governor
A1 (cohol) Smith as democracy’s only
hope. If that be true Democracy has
less than no hope . For six months
the republican politicians, from Chair-
man Butler down, have been boosting
Smith for the democratic nomination,
evidently because of the ease with
which they know they can defeat him.
Texas is so overwhelmingly demo-
cratic that politicians have come to be-
lieve it will never be otherwise, but if
these wet political manipulators suc-
ceed in capturing the national conven-
tion at Houston and in nominating
Smith, or any other “dripping wet”
and the republicans nominate Herbert
Hoover, or some similar statesmanlike
dry, as they are likely to do, these
politicians are due an awakening. If
that should happen I expect to see
about 500 democrat speakers who say
things when they talk, take the field
in Texas for the dry republican
against the wet democrat, and for
once Texas presidential electors are
likely to be republican.
Why not be sensible? Who would
want to entrust the enforcement of
the anti-gambling law to a man who
for years had denounced the anti-
gambling law as an unwarranted in-
vasion of' personal rights and done
his utmost to favor gambling? Who
but gamblers and those profiting by
gambling? Then why entrust the
enforcement of the anti-liquor law to
a president equally hostile to it?
On to Houston, 40,000 strong. “Now
is the time for all loyal drys to come
to the aid of the party.”
But don’t forget to attend your pri-
mary conventions May and see that
the local sentiment of your precinct
is properly reflected in the delegates
sent to your convention and from
your county to the state convention.
“Eternal vigilance is the price of
freedom” from rum-ruled politics.
Sherman, Texas.
nearly every state and more are being
planned.
The week-end carnival of crime in
the city of Dallas is enough to make
the unprotected citizen shudder with
dread. Even worse conditions are
found in other cities. A citizen does
not know when he will forfeit his own
life. He fears for the safety of his
wife and children and yet we coun-
tenance a system of court procedure
which makes it possible to delay and
defeat the cause of justice at will.
Every precaution and every safeguard
is thrown around the criminal. The
man who brutally assaults and then
murders little girls or shoots down an
innocent, law-abiding citizen for the
few dollars he may have on his per-
son, has no trouble in securing the
best of legal talent, not to see that his
rights under the law are safeguarded,
but to defeat the law and turn him
loose to commit other crimes.
Will the people of Texas and of
other states continue to be indifferent
to the demands of justice, or will they
insist upon a system of procedure
which will confine lawyers to the
merits of the case under consideration
and bring it to a final termination
within a reasonable period of time ?—
Farm and Ranch.
RODMAN WANAMAKER
IS CALLED BY DEATH
Fidelis Class Meets.
The Fidelis class of the Baptist
Sunday school met Monday evening
at 7:30 o’clock at the home of Miss
Hazel Waggoner, for their regular
monthly business and social meeting.
Officers were elected at this time
for the new year. They are as fol-
lows :
President, Miss Ruth Sparks; first
vice president, Miss Eva Williams;
second vice president, Miss Louise
Durham; secretary and treasurer,
Miss Glenn Jones; corresponding sec-
retary, Miss Selma Waggoner; re-
porter, Miss Ruby Mae Seale, and as-
sistant teacher, Miss Hazel Waggon-
er.
After the business session a deli-
cious refreshment plate was served to
the members present.
AUSTIN HIGH TO ENTER
NATIONAL BASKETBALL MEET
TEXAS FARM BUREAU
TO REDUCE ACREAGE
Dallas, Tex., Mar. 10.—Aid to sup-
port a cotton acreage reduction pro-
gram was voted here by the board of
directors of the Texas Farm Bureau
Cotton association, it was announced
today. The directors said they would
back any “sane program which may
-be worked out as a result of the ini-
tiatory step” taken at the recent Jack-
son, Miss., mass meeting of southern
leaders.
CONTEST OF WITS
BETWEEN LAWYERS
What a farce our courts have be-
come. It is no longer a question of
the guilt or innocence of the prisoner
at the bar, but a contest of wits be-
tween the opposing counsel. The
crime is merely a setting for the show
put on by the lawyers, and the court,
governed by archaic rules and a pro-
cedure so grossly ridiculous that it
would not be countenanced in any
other civilized country in the world,
sits as an umpire and calls the fouls
and strikes.
Brutal crimes are committed. Some-
one is arrested and evidence collected.
Then the lawyers step forward, not in
the interest of justice, but for the
aggrandizement of their own reputa-
tion. They interpose all manners of
obstacles in the way of determining
the guilt or innocence of the prisoner
in a reasonable time. Take note of
what is happening all over the coun-
try. Consider the battle royal recent-
ly conducted in an Ohio court. What
about California? In the meantime,
similar crimes are being enacted in
New York, Mar. 9.—Rodman Wana-
maker, merchant prince, who died to-
day at his Atlantic City villa, had his
life insured for $7,500,000, making him
one of the most heavily insured per-
sons in the country.
The Spectator, insurance magazine,
last September ranked him at the
head of a list of 194 persons who held
policies for $1,000,000 or more. Only
seven persons held policies as great
as $5,000,000.
Austin, Tex., Mar. 12.—Austin high
school, winner of the state basketball
championship Saturday night, will en-
ter the national tournament in Chi-
cago, April 3-7. T. A. Gullett, princi-
pal of the high school, said Monday
that he had promised the Maroons
they could go if they won the state
title. As a result, daily practice ses-
sions will be continued by Coach Kit
Carson. Last year’s Texas high
school champion's, Athens high school,
finished fourth in the national high
school meet, which it attended at the
close of the state playoff.
W. M. Faubion of Lometa, candidate
for sheriff of Lampasas county, was
in the city Friday in the interest of
his candidacy.
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* MOTHERS
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quickly. Give the little one a dose or
two of White’s Cream Vermifuge. _ Worms
cannot exist where this time-tried and
successful remedy is used. It drives out.
the worms and restores the rosy hue of
health to baby cheeks. Price 35c. Sold by
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The Lampasas Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, March 16, 1928, newspaper, March 16, 1928; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth891827/m1/3/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lampasas Public Library.