The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 104, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 6, 1932 Page: 1 of 4
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TWENTY-NINTH YEAR
WEDNESDAY LAMPASAS, TEftAS, JULY 6, 1932.
WEDNESDAY
NUMBER 104
BAPTIST ENCAMPMENT
OPENING DATE RESET
TAMMANY MAY NAME
SMITH FOR GOVERNORSHIP
BONUS ARMY BEEF
TRAVELING BY AIR
DRY KEYNOTER HITS LIQUOR
STAND OF BOTH PARTIES
HUGE BROWNWOOD
LAKE IS FILLED
—THE NEW—
SAN ANTONIO, July 5.—Floods
along the west prong of Frio River
have resulted in two weeks’ postpone-
meet of the annual Alto Frio Baptist
Encampment, to have been commenc-
ed July 8, it was announced today,
following1 a meeting1 of the encamp-
ment board here. The new dates are
July 22 to 31.
CITY CUTS OPER-
ATING EXPENSES
At a meeting- of the City Council
held Tuesday, steps were taken to
reduce the operating expenses of the
city. The city is now in as good or
better shape, financially as at this
period in the past but there are de-
linquent taxes and in all probability
the delinquents will be greater next
year than this. The steps are taken
now to reduce operating expenses in
order to be in a position to care for
the city’s bonded indebtedness and
other expenses next year.
Salary reductions will affect all city
employes 'and the average reduction
5s about 20 per cent. One of the street
men will be taken off and the tractor
and grader will be discontinued for a
time. The helper for the city water-
works will be discontinued and some
of the chemicals will be left out of
the city water and this will mean
quite a saving.
The Council has no authority to
reduce salaries of elective officers but
they volunteered to accept the reduc-
tions, showing the proper spirit and
their willingness to work with the
council to keep down the overhead
expenses.
The city water will be treated with
chlorine to kill all of the bacteria and
keep it safe for drinking but the lime
and iron will be left out of the water.
The members of the council are
trying to handle the afiairs of the
city as an individual would conduct
his business and by cutting the cor-
ners in the several places it will mean
quite a saving in the operating of the
city’s affairs.
LATEST BONUS PARADE- '
SHOWS DWINDLED ARMY
WASHINGTON, July 5.—With
martial swing, the bonus seekers army
marched today to the capitol to show
congress its strength, but found its
ranks considerably depleted.
Their leaders maintained that be-
tween 16,000 and 23,000 marched in
the parade and drifted from the cap-
itol when the cheers for the last
speaker had died out. By count there
were 4,731 in line, including 13 wo-
men and 17 children.
A police census of the parade and
g count of the encampments during
the march showed only 11,700 veter-
ans now in the city—the lowest num-
ber in weeks.
Jack Mickle and T, Q. Scott re-
turned "Wednesday to their homes in
Lubbock after spending a short time
here with friends.
PILGRIMS DRAW BLAME
FOR BLUE MONDAY’ WASH
AMES, Iowa.—Why is Monday
wash day?
Helen Bishop, head of the home
management department of the Lowa
State College, explains that it is a
peculiar American custom, because:
The Pilgrims landed on Sunday, and
the next day they washed, because
they had washing to do.
And so, says Miss Bishop, we
Americans still wash on Monday, even
though it’s “the most unsuitable day
of all the week.”
Mr. and Mrs. Muschat Rugeley of
Austin spent the Fourth of July in
Lampasas with relatives.
BP
Phone 400
Fresh Seedless Grapes, Cali-
fornia Plums, Home Grown
Peaches, Fresh Pineapple and
all Fresh Vegetables.
New size Crystal Wedding
Oats with premium ............10c
Whipping Cream—Cold Milk
CASH GROCERY
W. H. MOSES
Dependable Groceries at
Dependable Prices
NEW YORK, July 5.—The Evening
Post says Tuesday it has learned that
a Tammany movement is under way
looking to the nomination of fbrmer
Governor Alfred E. Smith for a fifth
term as the State’s chief executive.
Prominent Tammany leaders are
said by the Post to want Smith draft-
ed for Governor and from persons
close to John F. Curry, leader of the
Hall, it is understood Smith’s selec-
tion would be welcome to the Tam-
many chieftain.
MR. AND MRS. J. C. WIMBERLY
CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Wimberly of
this city celebrated their golden wed-
ding anniversary on July 4, and had
their children and other guests here
for the occasion. They have lived in
a;xd near Lampasas for 49 years, hav-
ing moved to Mesquite' Creek in the
fall of 1883 and in 1905 came to the
town of Lampasas. The children
here for the occasion were: Mr. and
Mrs. T. A. Wimberly and three chil-
dren, Tom Jr., Billie and Wanda Jean,
of Houston; Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Wim-
berly and daughter Louise,"'of Hous-
ton; Mr. and Mrs, D. E. Wimberly
and daughter Dortha Lee, of Tulsa,
Okla. They also had Mr. Wimberly’s
brother, E. M. Wimberly of Tulsa,
Okla., Mr. and Mrs. Claude Wimber-
ly and children, Billie Jean and Bob-
bie, grandson and great grandchild-
ren, of Galveston; Mr. and Mrs, Thos.
Darrough and daughter, Josephine,
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Lacy and children,
Thos. Clyde and Florine, Mr. and Mrs.
Steinmetz Darrough, Mr. and Mrs.
Herbert Darrough and daughter,
Mamy Evelyn, Mrs. Morris Crown-
over and son, Jimmie Darrough, all
of Marble Falls,
GARNER GIVEN HOUSE OVATION
WASHINGTON, July 6.—Speaker
John N. Garner, democratic vice pres-
idential nominee, was greeted with a
tremendous burst of applause Tues-
day as he walked into the house cham-
ber to take the chair for the first
time since his. nomination.
By previous arrangement, an un-
usually large number of members
were present, both democrats and re-
publicans. The speaker delayed his
entrance, however, until just a few
minutes before the jxoon meeting hour.
Garner took the chair, laid his glas-
ses on the desk and rapped for order
in vain.' At first he stared fixedly at
a small card, as if embarrassed, but
finally looked up and smiled as the
ovation continued for several minutes,
punctuated by rebel yells and shouts.
Representative Snell, the republi-
can leader, came forward to the desk
and personally congratulated Garner.
This was the signal for another out-
break of applause from the democrats
who arose to their feet with cheers.
Later Garner said there was “not
g'oing to be any expense’-' attached to
his formal notification of the nomina-
tion. “I thought I was through, with
it when I sent a telegram to Repre-
sentative Sam Rayburn, chairman of
the Texas delegation, thanking them
for the nomination,” he said.
RAILS PAY TRIO OVER $300,000
WASHINGTON, July 5.—Three of
the approximately 1,200 executives
in Class 1 railroads of the country
were shown today in a report compil-
ed by the Interstate Commerce Com-
mission to receive more than $100,000
yearly.
Salaries of a number of others
ranged between $60,000 and $90,000,
the commission said in its report,
which was made public by Chairman
Couzens, republican, Michigan, of the
Senate Interstate Commerce Commit-
tee.
The figures were as of March of
this year. The top salary was $135,-
000, received by the chairman of the
executive committee of the .Southern
Pacific System, while the president of
the system gets $90,000.
The president of_the Pennsylvania
Railroad System, receiving $121,500,
got the second highest salary, fol-
lowed by the president of the Balti-
more and Ohio, who is paid $120,000.
The figures prepared by the com-
mission disclosed that there had been
cuts in the salaries of railroad execu-
tives since 1929, the average running
around 10 per cent.
James L. Abney and little daugh-
ter Marion, left Wednesday afternoon
for Brownsville after a visit here in
the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
W. B. Abney.
NEW YORK, Jly 5.—Fifteen hun-
dred pounds of beef, the donation of
a hat company, is on its way by air-
plane to the bonus expeditionary force
in Washington.
The supplies, taking the room us-
ually occupied by ten passengers, left
the Newark airport Tuesday in a.
plane chartered by Walter W. Waters,
the bonus army commander, who has
been appealing to New York for as-
sistance for his army.
Waters arrived in Newark after a
flight from Washington. He planned
a public appeal for fxxnds, food and
clothing, both over the radio and in
pergonal appearapces in a Brooklyn
theater,
CHIHUAHUA OUSTS
FLYING GOVERNOR
MEXICO CITY, July 5.—A dispatch
to the newspaper Excelsior Tuesday
frppi Chjhuphua City said Governor
Roberto Fierro, former Mexican f|yr
ing ace and hero of a nonstop flight
from Mexico City to New York two
years ago, was ousted by the state
legislature on charges of misuse of
funds.
Several charges were placed against
the Governor by Deputy Jose Boruda.
The dispatch aajd he was accused of
having collected 20,000 pesos contrary
to law by advance tax collections from
home owners, of accepting 47,000 pe-
sos from a former gambling house
proprietor at Ciudad Juarez and 25,-
000 pesos from another source.
A third charge was that Fierro
was unable satisfactorily to account
for the federal government's 20 per
cent of the Chihuahua state govern-
ment’s tax funds, nor of $2,500 col-
lected from a gambling concession in
Juarez.
CAR OF GOODS FOR
ORPHANS’ HOME
On August 31, and September 1,
when the Baptist association -'Con-
venes with the First Baptist church
here it is our pux^pose to ship a car
of goods to Buckner Orphans’ Home
at Dallas. Such things as clothing,
eggs, canned goods, feed stuff and
probably live stock will be sent.
We Would be glad to have the peo-
ple all over Lampasas county to con-
tribute to this worthy cause. It is
the writer’s purpose to visit every
community in this county between
now and September 1, in interest of
this car.
A. F. Avant.
FORTY-FIVE BALES OF
COTTON PAY TAXES THAT
IN 1920 TOOK FIVE
(Dallas News)
The mounting cost of farm im-
plements is pointed out in a com-
munication to The Dallas News from
W. S. Kirby, Dallas landowner and
capitalist. Figures submitted by Mr.
Kirby from his own ‘records kept
since 1920 give the following com-
parisons :
Cultivators in 1020 cost $20, in
1923 $25, jn 1928 $57 and in 1930
$65.
Turning plows in 1920 cost $10, in
1923 $14.50, in 1930 $32.50.
Riding sulky plows in 1920 cost
$35, in 1926 $73, in 1931 $95.
Grain binders in 19^0 cost $135,
in 1930 $275.
Mr. Kirby also submits his records
of prices received for oats, which in
1920 was $1.25 a bushel, but in 1931
was 13c a bushel. In 1920, 108 bush-
els of oats returned $135, but in 1931
2,115 bushels of oats returned only
$275, his books show.
As to a farmer’s taxes to be paid
out of his products, Mi1. Kirby sub-
units that in 1920 five bales of cot-
ton paid taxes on his Kaufman Coun-
ty farm, while in 1931 it took forty-
five bales to pay the same taxes.
Mr. Kirby did not submit 1932 fig-
ures, but anyone familiar with the
situation knows that prices of farm
products have dropped still lower.
ROOSEVELT WILL
VISIT IN DALLAS
ST. LOUIS, Mo., July 3.—Gov.
Franklin D. Roosevelt will visit Dal-
las, according to Maury Hughes here
Sunday night en route to Dallas.
Woodrow Wilson spoke in Dallas
prior to his election. Hughes said
the date is yet to be fixed for Roose-
velt’s visit.
A light rain fell here Wednesday at
2 o’clock. The gauge at Stokes Bros,
bank registered .25 of an inch.
INDIANAPOLIS, July 5.—Clinton
W. Howard, delivering the keynote
address Tuesday at the opening ses-
sion of the prohibition party’s na-
tional convention, hurled a challenge
at the wet element of the two major
parties.
The Rochester, N. Y., man attack-
ed both the republican and demo-
cratic national platform planks deal-
ing with the liquor question.
“We are ready to meet them on
the prohibition issue in constitution-
al form at the polls,” he declared.
Accredited delegates numbering
about 40 were present. National
Chairman D. Leigh Colvin presided.
The morning was devqted to con-
ferences designated to elicit expres-
sions of support for Senator William
E. Borah of Idaho as the party’s
presidential candidate.
The keynote addx-ess by Mr. How-
ard was filled with sarcasm directed
at the wets of both major pai’tjea,
<‘W§ d«u.y tp the wet n<rright that
was ours under the constitution,” de-
clared the keynoter. “We deny the
right of the wets t‘0 take out of the
constitution by some unconstituional
short cuts what it took the drys by
constitutional methods 100 years to
put in.”
W. M. U. MEETING
Tuesday afternoon, twenty mem-
bers of the W. M. U. met at the
church for their monthly business
meeting and missionary ^ogram.
After the usual business routine
was disposed of, two very interest-
ing letters were read by the secretary
the first from Mrs. Bessie Smith Tay-
lor, wife of Rev. Willard Taylor, mis-
sionaries who are in the home land,
on furlough, from their work in Bra-
zil, Mrs. Taylor’s friends were de-
lighted with her cheery optimistic
letter. The second was a letter re-
ceived by the Taylors, from a friend
on their mission field, describing con-
ditions as they exist there today. It
is hard for us, who have ever been
free to worship God as we choose, to
realize that other peoples must pay
with bitter persecution for this privi-
lege that we hold, often times so
lightly.
The missionary program on Chris-
tian education was rendered by the
Willard Taylor Circle. Mrs. F. M.
Knight brought the devotional, read-
ing from that striking passage of
scripture, “The Healing of Naaman,
the Leper.” Mrs. Vaden gave such
a splendid, practical talk on the duty
of the teachers of the youth of the
land living the Christian life before
their pupils, and openly aligning
themselves with the churches and all
other forces of righteousness. Mrs.
Gunter told of the ninety-two colleges
and academies in the south with their
25,000 students, a large per cent of
which ax-e preachers and missionary
volunteers. The value of Southern
Baptist school property is $30,000,000,
with $20,000,000 endowment, but we
need more endowment and better
equipment to enable our schools to
stand on a par with state schools, and
we need to send our own sons and
daughters to our own schools. Mrs.
Perry gave two interesting stories
about Baptist schools, one of how the
mountain schools are the means of
transforming the lives of the young
people of that section, the other of
how a Christian school was the means
of converting every member of a
heathen family.
The meeting was closed with pray-
er by Mrs. W. R. Williamson.—Re-
porter.
Leader’s Job Printing Best—Try It!
SMITH FOR GOVERNOR
MOVE SEEN BY PAPER
NEW YORK, July 5.—The Even-
ing Post says today it has learned
that a Tammany movement is under
way looking to the nomination of
former Governor Alfred E. Smith for
a fifth term as the state’s chief ex-
ecutive.
Prominent Tammany leaders are
said by the Post to want Smith draft-
ed for governor, and from persons
close to John F. Curry, leader of the
hall, it is understood Smith’s selec-
tion would be welcome to the Tam-
many chieftain.
Capt. and Mrs. Albert Mace of Fal-
furrias spent the Fourth here with
relatives. They left Tuesday for Cop-
peras Cove where they will visit in
the home of Steve Williamson for a
short time.
(Temple Telegram)
Brownwood lake, one of the larg-
est bodies of water in Texas, was
filled by the flodds last week accord-
ing to reports yesterday, and now
stands three and a half miles wide
at places.
Water is backed up 15 miles to
Thrifty where water is 10 feet deep
in the town, according to some re-
ports. It was believed when the lake
was built that the water would not
reach back to Thrifty. The lake has
a shore line of more than 80 miles.
The huge lake covers 140,000 acres.
The 11 inch rain at Sweetwater and
the similar rain at Coleman had caus-
ed unprecedented floods in that sec-
tion. Santa Fe trains from the west
were on time yesterday but crews
were still repairing damage around
Coleman.
HOOVER VETOES BILL EX-
PANDING LAW ON WAGE?
WASHINGTON, July 5.—President
Hoover Tuesday weilded his vetr
power, sending back to the senate
without approval a measure expand
ing upon an existing law requiring
that wages paid to laborers and me
chanics on public building projects
be equal to the prevailing wages in
that section.
The chief executive returned the
bill almost without comment, his vetc
message consisting only of 55 words.
He did attach to it, however, a lengthy
memorandum by Secretary Doak, of
the labor department, stating his ob-
jections to it.
Doak contended the measure would
place upon the department of labor a
burden that would require large ad
ditional expenditures to settle need-
less disputes.
“The bill should not be approved,”
Doak asserted. “It is obscure and
complex, and would be impracticable
of administration. It would stretch
a new bureaucracy across the coun-
try.”
The bill would amend the present
wage law to require that each con
tract for a government project con-
tain a provision stating the prevail-
ing rate of wages in the section con-
cerned. It would expand the present
law also to apply not only to public-
buildings but also to other public-
works.
Doak contended that under the
present law disputes as to prevail-
ing wag^s usually were settled be-
tween the contractor and organized
labor, and that only when no decis-
ion was reached wras the department
of labor called upon to aet. A great
investigatory force, he said, would be
required if prevailing wages were to
be listed in all contracts.
HOOVER CALLS CONFERENCE
ON RELIEF TANGLE
WASHINGTON, July 5.—President
Hoover summoned congressional lead-
ers of both parties to the White
House Tuesday in an effort to
straighten out the unemployment x-e-
lief tangle which threatened to de-
lay adjournment of congx-ess.
The conference hurriedly was call-
ed late in the aftexmoon after repxxb-
lican leaders in the senate had an-
nounced the president woxxld veto the
$2,100,000,000 bill which emerged
during the day from conferences be-
tweeix the house and senate.
The word was passed out by Sen-
ator Watson, republican leader of the
senate, that Mr. Hoover would not
only veto the bill, but demand that
congress stay in session to pass a
new relief lxieasure.
Garner Is Invited.
Speaker Garner and other demo-
cratic and repxiblican leaders were
invited to the conference at which the
px-esident planned to propose elimina-
tion of some featux'es of the bill to
which he objects.. There was no in-
dication of what the president would
propose. The bill already had been
approved by house and senate con-
fei-ees and was scheduled to be taken
up by the house Wednesday.
Democrats were disposed to pass
the bill and let the pi’esident veto
it if he desired.
Represexxtative Rainey, the demo-
cratic house leader, said all the con-
ferees, on the relief bill from both
house and senate had been invited
to the White House.
James Taylor of Shreveport, La.,
who has been here for sevei'al days
visiting his sister, Miss Missie Tay-
lor, left Tuesday for Temple whex-e
he will visit his brother, Wade Taylor.
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With Pat O’Brien, Myrna Loy, John
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Immortal ‘Sax-a’ of “Cimarron”
plays a glorious mother role!
All the glowing pi'onxise of her
first triuxxxph fulfilled in this heart to
heart di’ama of a gix’l who marx'ied to
mend a broken heart—a wife who
refused to fall in love with her hus-
band and discovered too late that—■
Marriage is one thing and mother-
hood another!
Extras: .
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Show starts 7:35 p. m.
Admission: 10c—25c—30c
TOMORROW AND FRIDAY
Our prize picture of the week. Be-
lieve us here is a pictux-e that’s worth
the money!
“YOUNG AMERICA”
With Spencer Tracy, Doris Kenyon,
Ralph Bellamy, Tommy Conlon and
Beryl Mercer.
Also Good Conxedy
Remember Folks!
“Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm”
is coming Sunday ancf Monday
WACO PASTOR LEAPS
FROM STUDY WINDOW
AND ESCAPES FLAMES
WACO, Texas. July 5.—Leaping
from the window of his study, fifteen
feet above the ground, the Rev. A.
Rielly Copelaxxd early Tuesday morn-
ing escaped xxninjxxred when the Tab-
ernacle Baptist Chxxrch, of which he
was pastor, was destx’oyed by fire.
Four near-by residences also burned.
Having ixndergone a minor surgical
operation Monday afternoon, Mr.
Copeland went to his cool study to
rest and fell asleep. He was awak-
ened by the fire, origin of which is
undetermined. The church, a haxxd-
soixxe three-story building, was insxxr-
ed for $32,000.
Mr. and Mrs. T. E. McCandless of
Meridian are visiting in the home of
Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Wagle. They
will visit in the home of Mr. and Mrs.
J. F. West at Evant before retixrn-
ing home.
COUNCIL OF WAR HELD
BY TEXAS DRY LEADERS
DALLAS, July 5.—Veterans of the
prohibitionist insurrection of 1928,
when Texas voted for a republican
president for the fix'st time since car-
petbagger days, held a coxxncil of war
here today.
What they decided to do aboxxt the
Roosevelt-Garner ticket was ixot an-
noxxnced. There were hints that they
woxxld concentrate on the congx-es-
sional elections. Forxxxer state Sena-
tor Thomas B. Love, one of the out-
standing anti-Smith leaders four
years ago, who called the lxxeetij^g in-
dicated as mxich when it was finished.
“All I can say,” he said, “is that this
meeting had nothing to do with na-
tional affaix’s.”
John M. Cunningham and Bernard
Davis of near Goldthwaite who have
been spexxding the past few days in
the home of Mi1. Cunningham’s aunt,
Mrs. W. B. Hexxsley, and also taking
in the big barbecue, have returned
home.
The second game of polo between
Lampasas and Coleman, played here
on Tuesday was won by Coleman by
a score of 8 to 3.
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