The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 111, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 14, 1934 Page: 4 of 4
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The Lampasas Daily Leader
J. H. ABNEY & SON
Herbert j. Abney, Publisher
Entered at the postoffice at Lampasas
March 7, 1904, as second-class mail.
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POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Leader is authorized to make
the following political announcements,
subject to the primary election in
July:
For Sheriff, Asfsr. & Tax Collector:
A. R. HARVEY (re-election)
JNO. B. DAVIS.
FRED MASON.
R. E. (Bob) POOLE
J. B. (Barney) PRESTON.
For County Judge:
J. C. ABNEY.
J. TOM HIGGINS (re-election)
For District Attorney:
JIM K. EVETTS, of Belton.
HENRY TAYLOR (re-election).
For County Treasurer:
MRS. HARRY EASTERS.
MRS. JOHN B. TAYLOR.
For Commissioner, Precinct No. 1:
HOSE A BAILEY (re-election).
I. N. HART
AARON (Pete) CUMMINS.
For Public Weigher in Lampasas:
R. E. (Bob) LANDRUM.
For District Clerk:
S. A. WORD (re-election).
For County Attorney:
J. J. BYRNE.
J. SYLVESTER LEWIS.
For Congress, 21st District:
C. L. SOUTH of Coleman.
E. E. (Pat) MURPHY
of San Angelo
CULBERSON DEAL of San Angelo
CARL RUNGE of Mason.
For County Clerk:
D. N. CORNETT (re-election).
METHODIST CHURCH
LARGE EAGLE ON DISPLAY
A large eagle, killed near Lam
pasas recently, has been mounted and
is on display at the Bank of Stokes
Bros. The bird was killed by Her-
bert Pierson on the. ranch of Stokes
Bros. & Co., west of town. This
eagle had been catching some of the
lambs and kids on the ranch and Mr.
Pierson got a shot at him one day
while out in the pasture. He crippled
the bird and it straightway made an
attack on him but he knocked it in
the head with a stick and brought
it to town.
It is out of the ordinary for eagles
to be found in Lampasas county, but
we have a diversified section and can
produce practically anything that any
other county can.
PLOT TO BLAST BANK FOILED
SOUTH ST. PAUL, Minn., July 14.
t—A bandit swathed in bandages fail-
ed in an effort to rob the Stockyards
bank Friday.
Ht threatened to blow up the bank
unless given $7,000. He fled when
police approached.
For an hour the man strolled in
front of the bank.
His entire head was bandaged, leav-
ing only slits to see through. His
hands were bandaged to the finger
tips.
When he entered, he walked to the
desk of Vice President John C. Kohl
and handed him a folded paper. Kohl
read it.
‘‘I’ve got four quarts of glycerin on
myself,” the note stated. “It’s con-
nected with a battery in my pocket—•
in one sleeve is a bottle of nitro-
glycerin. , If my arms are lowered,
it will drop to the floor and set off
the rest of the nitroglycerin—On one
of my feet I have another switch.
One stamp 6f my foot' and it is all
off—One shot from anyone—will be
more than plenty to set off the nitro-
glycerin—There will be nothing more
than a hole in the ground where the
the building is standing.
“So I place my life in your hands
and the lives of all the rest of you.
My life is not worth anything and
I’m going to get $7,000 or die. But
then all of you will go with me.”
Kohl read the letter, asked the man
to “wait a minute,” walked to a tele-
phone operator and, with his back
to the man, told her to call police.
When he turned around, the man was
disappearing through a door.
DALLAS, July 13.—Mrs. Ermine
Harris, 30, at ohe time Fort Worth’s
most beautiful high school girl, and
her cousin, Miss Patricia Kidd, 24,
of Waxahachie, were shot to death,
today by H. B. Harris, former hus-
band of Mrs. Harris.
Harris, pistol in hand, then step-
ped across Miss Kidd’s body in a room
of his former wife’s home here, call-
ed an ambulance, said “I’ve just shot
two women,” and fired a bullet into
his own chest. The wound is near
his heart and hospital attendants
said he might die.
Three of the Harris’ four small
children witnessed the triple shoot-
ing. The foui'th was in Fort Worth
visiting his grandmother, Mrs. I. K.
Cummings.
“I couldn’t stand it any longer,”
Harris gasped to a policeman, re-
ferring to his separation from his
wife and childx*en since March 4.
He was permitted by court order, po-
lice said, to see the children twice
a week.
A negro servant, in the kitchen
when the shooting started, fled.
“Him and Mrs. Harris,” the ne-
gress said, “was arguing up in the
front room. Miss Pat was with them,
standing by. All of a sudden I heard
Miss Pat scream ‘Mike, don’t do that!’
Then he started shooting and I ran
into the yard. Mike was his nick-
name.”
The children who saw the tragedy
were Day, 6 months, in a crib; Bobby,
2, sitting in a high chair, and Mary
Ermine, 4, playing in the house. The
children were not harmed.
Mrs. Harris was shot as she faced
her husband in the living room of
the house, in the Oak Cliff section
of Dallas, where she, Miss Kidd and
the children lived. Two bullets pene-
trated her breast, and she dropped
face-down on a couch.
Miss Kidd apparently was shot as
she started to run from the front
room to escape Harris. Two bullets
struck her in the breast.
Harris fired one bullet into his
own chest. He came to Dallas from
Fort Worth and had been employed
here for the last six years in a store.
In the hospital, he called for his em-
ployer and the latter went to his
bedside.
Mrs. Harris was granted a divorce
from Hands on March 5 by Judge
Claude McCallum, the decree giving
the mother custody of the children
but allowing the father to visit them
at “all reasonable hours.” The de-
cree provided he was to pay Mrs
Harris $75 monthly alimony.
Sunday school 9:45 a. m.» J. F.
Gilbert, superintendent.
Morning worship 11 o’clock Sub-
ject of sermon, “The World’s Esti-
mate of the Meek.”
Evening service on the church lawn,
8:15. Subject of sermon, “Ready to
Meet God.”
Young people’s meeting 7:15, Mack
Richey, president.
Prayer meeting Wednesday even-
ing at 8:15.
J. Virgil Davis, Pastor.
YE COPY WRITERS!
Copy furnished to the printer
should be written only on one side of
the paper, otherwise a part of it is
likely to be overlooked. PLEASE re-
member this.
BROWNWOOD ENGINEERS
HOPE TO CLOSE FLOOD-
GATES TODAY
BAPTIST CHURCH
Rev. J. Kelly Simmons will preach
Sunday morning and probably Sun-
day night. Bro. Simmons is a fine,
successful young pastor. He
bring a splendid message.
The pastor will return for
service Sunday week, July 22.
Sunday school 9:45, Delbert
zell, superintendent.
B. T. S. 7:15, Mx*s. Avant,
eral director.
Services at 11 o’clock and at 8:15.
Welcome.
Asa Franklin Avant, Pastor.
BABY THOUGHT KIDNAP*
ED BY DEGENERATE
HARTSDALE, N. Y., July 13.—
Search for an eccentric peddler as
the kidnaper of 18 months old Bobby
Connor, son of Charles H. Connor,
New York mortgage broker, was or-
dered today after,fruitless search by
state troopers, police and volunteers
dashed hopes he might have strayed
into the underbrush of nearby es-
tates.
Bobby had been missing 18 hours
at noon. He disappeared from the
home of his parents
after a walk last night,
The child’s parents said the only
explanation they could give for the
kidnaping was the possibility of a
ransom collection from the boy’s pa-
ternal grandfather.
Mrs. Connor became hysterical and
is under the care of a physician to-
day. Connor led one of the search-
ing parties.
Connor returned to Hartsdale from
his New York office just after his
son’s disappearance. He immediately
notified police. Alarmed when they
were unable to find any trace of the
last evening boy, they called in state troopers,
peddler had Police said one woman in the neigh-
will
the
gen-
* CENTRAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH *
Bible school, 8:45.
Sermon and communion, 10:30.
Junior Endeavor, 2:00.
Sermon at Oak Grove school house,
3:00 p. m.
Intermediate Endeavor, 7:15.
Sex'mon, 8:15.
Px;ayer meeting, Wednesday, 8:15.
The first chapter of Philippians is
the lesson text.
Remember 9:00 o’clock is the hour
of prayer.
Lawrence Williams.
CHURCH OF CHRIST
Corner of First and Walnut Sts.
Bible study, 10:00 a. m.
Preaching, 11:00 a. nx., by Brother
Robert LeCroix of Lometa.
Communion sexwice, 11:45 a. m.
We want every member present.
Visitors and strangers welcome. You
wlil enjoy hearing Robert LeCroix
as he always has a good lesson.
—Reporter.
TWO NATIONS HURT BY
TALK OF NRA CHIEF
BROWNWOOD, Tex., July 13l—
Engineers for the Gulf Coast Water
company hoped tonight that the free
imgation service being supplied to
rice farmers 500 miles from here
would be stopped tomorrow.
The engineers have wox’ked for
days to close the floodgates at Lake
Brownwood and stop the constant
draining of the reservoir. Tonight
they said they hoped to have the gates
closed tomorrow noon.
The level of the lake has dropped 20
feet since the water began flowing
out into the irrigation ditches, and
the farmers who paid for 14,000 acre
feet have received 51,000.
Ox-iginally, the irrigation water, de-
stined for rice farms in Matagorda
and Wharton counties, was to amount
to 14,000 acre feet, but when that
had gone through, the tenders were
unable to close the gates.
Tonight only 14,000 acre feet of
water was left in the lake, which is
in the Colorado river.
Engineers said that as soon as the
gates are closed a diver will be sent
down to see what caused the trouble
and'to make repairs.
“SMOOTH TALKERS” ROB
BANK CASHIER
CLINTON, Okla., July 13.—Alfred
Crow, 22 year old cashier of the
Fi^st National Bank here, told Sher-
iff G. G. Simpson Friday he had been
robbed of $1,500 by two “smooth
talking” men in a hotel room Thurs-
day night.
Lured by the pair’s story of a
chemical “money box” by which they
could reproduce currency, the sheriff
said Crow told him he took the $1,500
to the hotel room. The men opened
up their kit and began working on
one of the bills, with Crow watching
intently. Suddenly the men seized the
sack of money and ran out of the
room, locking the door. By the time
Crow got out, they were gone._
Sheriff Simpson said the men had
been here two days, repx*esenting
/themselves as ./business (men fjrom
Oklahoma City.
The “money box” was found in the
room and the sheriff said he would
send it to the Department' of Jus-
tice office in Oklahoma City.
Crow is , the son of the bank presi-
dent.
WASHINGTON, July 13.—Barely
had the state department assured the
Germany embassy today that' Hugh
S. Johnson was not a spokesman for
the American government in inter-
national matters before word spread
in the capital that Mexico, too, was
displeased by remarks of the £|uick
speaking general.
The Mexican embassy declined to
discuss the matter but from other
quarters it was understood that ref-
erences Johnson made to Mexico in
his Waterloo, Iowa, speed had been
transmitted to the Mexican foreign
office for study.
A protest by the German charge
d’affaires today brought from Secre-
tary Hull an explanation that John-
son was speaking as an individual
and not for the government.
Mexican tempers were ruffled by
Johnson’s reference to the Pancho
Villa epoch of 20 years ago. The
Mexicans regarded his reference to
that hectic period as an unfortunate
and gratuitous reminder of condi-
tions no longer existing in Mexico.
Johnson, in his speech, referred to
recent executions in Germany and
declared:
“I have seen something of that sort
in Mexico during the Villa ravages
and among semi-civilized people or
savages half-drunk on Sotol and
Marijuana, but that such a thing
should happen in a country of some
supposed culture passes comprehen-
sion.”
Iixformed at Omaha of the protest,
Johnson said:
“I meant everything I said.”
shortly after a drug
been chased from the neighborhood, borhood drove the peddler from her
The fact that no rpnsom demands home with a shotgun after he had
had been received by Bobby’s pax*- threatened her. The man was selling
ents nor at the home of his grand- patent medicines. Mrs. Connor re-
fathex*, Charles P. Connor of Arling- fused to buy from him.
ton, Mass., led Police Captain Phillip The Connors have four other chil-
J. MacQuillan to believe that it was dren, the youngest being 2 months old
the work of a degenerate who had Jewel. The other children are visit-
taken the boy for revenge. I ing their maternal grandmother, Mrs.
, 1 Richard H. Murphy, in Bridgeport.
Possibility that the child-about the Mrs_ Connor-s father was the late
age of Charles A. Lindbergh J]ri> Richard Murphy, wealthy Bridgeport
when he was kidnaped and killed two contractor and police commissioner,
years ago—had toddled away and be-
come lost became faded today as
daylight searching parties returned
weary, torn by brambles and empty-
handed, as had hundreds of police,
firemen and neighbors who beat the
woods all night. A call was sent for
200 Boy Scouts and they joined the
search.
Dozens of posses had covex*ed miles
of ground; a trained police dog had
traced an eliptical route a few yards
long back to the starting point. The
dog was given the scent and ended
the trail a few minutes later at a
street corner, a block from the Con-
nor home, where Ruth Schwagerman,
3, a neighbor’s child, said she left
strategy committee on the question
on a general Walkout.
The federal boax*d worked in a
tense atmosphere, hoping to persuade
the striking maritime unions to sub-
mit to arbitration the issues involv-
ed in the tangled situation.
Ignoring the plea of the president’s
board for delay, the teamsters unions
of San Fx*ancisco and Alameda coun-
ty walked out 3,700 strong, stopping
the movement of freight motor ve-
hicles. Wholesale butcher workers
dx*opped their knives and cleavers,
cutting off fresh meat supplies for
the 1,000,000 residents of the bay
cities.
National guax*d troops, ending their
first week of occupation of the San
Francisco waterfront prepared for
“any emergencies.”
PARALYSIS OF STRIKE
TAKES LARGER TOLL
SAN FRANCISCO, July 12.—Strike
paralysis cx*ept farther along the
channels of Pacific Coast commerce
today and San Francisco began to
take on the aspects of a beleaguered
city in face of a threatened general
walkout.
The crucial situation stretched far
beyond the reach of President Roose-j measure
TWIN SONS
BORN
TO BING CROSBYS
HOLLYWOOD, July 13. —Bing
Crosby and his wife, the former Dix-
ie Lee, screen actress, today became
the parents of twin boys.
While Bing, singer, actor and pret-
ty fair amateur golfer, was passing
out the cigars, he was told that he
and his wife had established some
sort of “record” for screen couples.
No other couple in the movies has
twins.
The babies were placed in an in-
cubator at Cedars of Lebanon Hos-
pital immediately after their birth
and were weighed. The attending
physician, Dr. Joseph Harris, explain-
ed this was merely a precautionary
and that the twins, Mrs.
velt’s labor dispute board as one Crosby and even Bing himself, were
union after another made known its “doing splendidly.”
intentions to strike or to follow rec- ’ The Crosby’s have another child,
onxmendations soon to be made by a a 13 months old boy.
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LLANO, July 13.—J. S. Morgan,
22, was charged with murder today
in connection with the stabbing of
Lloyd Fleming, 41, ranchman, in the
Ebson community near Llano last
night.
The complaint was filed after an
investigation by Sheriff Dan McDon-
ald and F. H. Hammond, district at-
torney. Morgan, an only son of J. C.
Morgan, was ax*rested early today at
his home.
Investigators learned that the youth
and Fleming quarreled over a differ-
ence which arose when Morgan work-
ed for Fleming last year on his
ranch. The affray took place at a
domino party attended by lxxen, wo-
men and children from the Esbon
community.
Fleming was a member of a pioneer
ranching family and he and Morgan
both have lived in the Llano vicinity
most of their lives. Funeral services
for Fleming wex*e held today at Chero-
kee, near Llano.
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