The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 73, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 30, 1931 Page: 4 of 4
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The Lampasas Daily Leader
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AMERICAN GIVEN DEATH IN
PLOT AGAINST MUSSOLINI
BALLOONISTS LAND
SAFELY UPON GLACIER
ROME, May 28.—Michele Schirru,
naturalized American citizen, was con-
victed today of plotting the assassina-
tion of Premier Mussolini and sen-
tenced to death by shooting in the
back.
Schirru, who was tried before a
special tribunal for the defense of
the state, maintained an attitude of
bravado until the trial nearly ended.
He broke down, however, during the
final summation of the prosecutor, who
described him as “a man without mor-
als.” At this piont Schirru bowed
his head and began to weep.
The defense attorney concluded his
plea by addressing the judges, “Your
sentence will be heard by the world,
let it therefore be merciful.”
SOLDEN, Austria, May 29.—Safe
after their balloon flight into the
earth’s stratosphere, in which they
claim to have broken the world’s alti-
tude record by several thousand feet,
Professor Auguste Piccard and his
physicist companion, Charles Kipfer,
landed on a mountain glacier near
Ober Gurgl and were resting in the
village there Thursday night.
Prof. Piccard said the balloon, in
which they took off from Augsburg,
Germany, Wednesday morning, had
reached a height of over 52,500 feet.
It was reported practically undamaged
on the glacier and was to be brought
down the mountain to Ober Gurgl
Friday. The instruments also were
intact. ,
The flight, Prof. Piccard said, was
“magnificent beyond conception.” In
all the nearly 24 hours the scientists
were in the air, and especially Wed-
nesday night when most of the world
had given them up for dead, the bal-
loon was never out of control, he said.
Murray pays visit
TO EL PASO DRESSED
IN COTTON CLOTHES
EL PASO, May 29.—Wearing a
cotton outfit from shoes to hat, Gov-
ernor W. H. Murray of Oklahoma
spent two hours in El Paso Thursday
before continuing his trip to the Pa-
cific coast.
“I got three suits, shoes, hat, sox
and the rest for $46,” he said. “They
are plenty comfortable and there’s no
usej to pay more.”
Mrs. Murray indicated she hadn’t
gone in for the cotton fad of her
husband. She was dressed in a smart
traveling suit.
The governor crossed into Mexico
and had breakfast in Juarez, drink-
ing coffee.
TORNADO LIFTS CRACK
TRAIN FROM TRACKS; 1 KILLED
FARGO, N. D., May 28.—Dashing
along at a 50 mile an hour clip, the
crack Great Northern Empire Build-
er, coast train de luxe, eastbound from
WELL MAY SET NEW RECORD
FORMER HUSBAND IS
ALLOWED 96 YEARS
TO SETTLE ALIMONY
CHICAGO, May 29.—Allegedly
$24,800 in arrears in alimony pay-
ments to his former wife, Daniel
Beebe, former porcelain products
manufacturer, was given 96 years by
Judge John J. Sullivan to pay off the
deficit. Judge Sullivan said he would
allow him to pay off the debt at the
rate of $5 a week.
Beebe, who is 55, told the court he
was bankrupt, but agreed to apply
larger sums on the deficit if he finds
it possible to do so.
DEBT CANCELLATION
CRITICIZED BY UNITED
STATES TREASURER
MUSSOLINI HALTS
WAR ON CATHOLICS
OKLAHOMA CITY, May 29.—An
oil well which experts said may take
rank as the world’s largest sweet oil
producer was tested here Thursday by
the Phillips Petroleum company, flow-
ing at the rate of approximately 100,-
000 barrels a day.
The well, No. 1 McBeth, in the north
end of the great Oklahoma City field,
gauged 9400 barrels of oil in 2 hours
and 15 minutes.
Some time ago Oils, Inc., claimed
production of greater than 100,000
barrels for its No. 1 Ross on the basis
1 of an 18-minute gauge, part of the
The well now
Seattle to Chicago, was picked up
Schirru was charged in all on seven Uke a toy from its tracks and wrecked
counts, including the possession of , & tornado ejgbt mjies southeast 1 test being estimated,
bombs, the wounding of three detec- j Qf bere late wednesday. One life was j has a potential rating of but 55,329
tives and membership in an anarchist logt> more than a score injure<j, one | barrels daily, however,
party. He is the first American to be' probably fatally> and SCOres of pas- j The Phillips well was completed
sengers shaken up by the freak ac-' March 28, flowed 4168 barrels in an
offense in
prosecuted for such an
Italy’s highest court.
Police said that Schirru, 32 years
old and a former resident of New
York, had confessed to coming to
Rome early this year with the inten-
tion of killing Mussolini. He was ar-
rested in February after a gun battle
with police and explosives were said
to have been found in his room.
In contrast to Schirru’s apparent
lack of emotion, the crowd in the
courtroom burst into applause when
sentence was pronounced . Those in
the galleries began singing the Fascist
anthem and continued until Fascist of-
ficers ordered them to stop.
According to custom, Scriru prob-
ably will be shot at dawn tomorrow.
The judges were out 50 muintes.
When they returned to the courtroom
a file of carabinieri marched into the
court and surrounded the cage in
which the prisoner was seated on a
bench.
When the deathy penalty was an-
nounced and the method described as
shooting in the back, Schirru’s face
blanched and his body slumped, but
he said nothing and arose and walked
out steadily surrounded by soldiers.
We are giving Free a beautiful en-
largement with each roll of Kodak
finishing. Our Kodak pictures never
fade.—Lion Drug Store. (w-d71-73)
BILIOUS m
“I have used Black-
Draught . . . and have
not found anything
that could take its
place. I take Black-
Draught for bilious-
ness. When I get bili-
ous, I have a nervous
headache and a ner-
vous, trembling feeling
that unfits me for my
work. After I take a
few doses of Black-
Dr aught, I get all
right. When I begin
to get bilious, I feel
tired and run-down,
and then the headache
and trembling. But
Black-Draught re-
lieves all this.”—s', c.
Hendrix, Homerville, Oa.
For indigestion, con-
stipation, biliousness,
take i.i7i
Thed Fords
BLACK-1
DRAUGHT
cident.
The death resulted when Andrew
Anderson of Montesano, Wash., was
hurled from the train through a win-
dow and ground to death beneath the
wheels of the following coach. Mrs.
Emjlly Hannan, jSgattle, suffered a
broken back and was said by phy-
sicians today to have a slight chance
for recovery.
Mrs. N. Troll, Minot, N. D., also
was Said to be in a serious condition
at a Fargo hospital, where many of
the injured were taken. An infant
daughter of Mrs. Hilda Qualley, Win-
chester, Wash., who also was injured,
suffered a seriously bruised head.
The train had crossed the North
Dakota-Minnesota line and was near-
ing Sabin, Minn., with Engineer B. E.
McKee of St. Paul at the throttle.
Without warning, as if handled in a
cradle, the entire 12-coach train was
lifted from the tracks, moved east
from the roadbed and deposited with a
thud on the prairie, leaving only the
engine and tender on the tracks.
As if held spellbound by the sud-
denness of the disaster, a moment or
two passed before realization of the
horror of the wreck became manifest
among the passengers. Men strug-
gled frantically to make their way
over the debris, through shattered win-
dows and jammed doors.
Motorists sped into Moorehead,
Minn., notified railway officials, and
within a few minutes doctors, nurses
and ambulances were en route.
Scores of volunteers, including po-
lice, farmers and Moorhead citizens,
climbed inside the coaches and passed
the injured to waiting hands.
(Despite the tremendous shock of
the impact, scores escaped uninjured,
due chiefly to the fact all cars of
the train were of steel. None of the
coaches collapsed.
The first of the injured were rush-
ed to hospitals at Moorhead and Fargo
in automobiles of passing motorists.
A few minutes later a special train
from Fargo reached the wreck and
took the remaining injured and other
passengers.
One of the heroes of the wreck was
Andrew Jackson, Seminole Indian, en
route to Pawnee, Okla., who aided
injured and assisted in restoring or-
der immediately after the crash.
Seven persons were imprisoned for
half an hour in the train club car
when doors jammed. The barriers
were chisled away and the persons,
several hysterical, were taken out.
hour and 25 minutes and was shut in.
ROME, May 29.—Premier Musso-
lini, it was understood on excellent
authority Thursday, has called a halt
in fascist violence against members
and property of Catholic organiza-
tions.
The disorders of Wednesday night,
when a Catholic publishing house was
attacked, Catholic papers and books
burned and a portrait of Pope Pius
XI trampled on the pavement, were
considered by the premier to be too
serious to be overlooked.
Accordingly, instructions were pas-
sed down the line that the agitation
among fascist students must be stop-
ped, and controversy must be limited
to newspaper polemics.
WOMAN MAGISTRATE
DECLARED UNFIT TO
HOLD SEAT ON BENCH
CHICAGO, May 29.—W. O. Woods,
treasurer ,of the United States, ex-
pressed the opinion today that recon-
sideration of foreign debt settlements
would be “worse than useless, as it
will only breed ill-feeling.”
He departed from a prepared ad-
dress before the Executives’ Club of
Chicago to touch on the subject of
foreign obligations.
“Public sentiment in America,”
Woods said, “would not permit re-
consideration of the debt settlement
agreement. The Americans will not
agree to cancel and the debtors can-
not afford to repudiate. Hence, fur-
ther discussion is worse than use-
less, as it will only breed ill-feeling.’
Repudiation by the debtor coun-
tries would ruin their credit and close
them from American financial mar-
kets, the United States Treasurei
averred. He outlined four major ob-
jections to cancellation.
First, the matter of law; second
the fact history affords no precedent
for charging to an ally the expense:
or damages incurred prior to the al
liance; third, the debtors cannot af
ford to set a precedent for an all]
assuming an obligation to restore
losses already inflicted by an aggres
sor, and, fourth, the United State:
owes a great debt to its holders whicl
must be paid by the taxpayer.
He concluded, “Our citizens wouh
not support an Administration tha,
would permit cancellation.”
PRESS CENSORSHIP IN ROME
B'Y ORDER OF THE DICTATOR
HEAVY PENALTY SET
FOR DISRESPECT TO
FLAG OF MEXICO
NEW YORK, May 29.—Mrs. Jean
, . „ „ Norris, New York’s only woman Mag-
It has about 50,000,000 cubic feet of was declared unflt and her
gas daily with the oil. removal recommended in a report sub-
mitted to the Appellate Court on
Thursday by Samuel Seabury, referee
in the inquiry into Magistrates’
Courts.
~ ‘ . I In addition to citing specific in-
MEX;ICO CITY, ,May 28. isre- gtanceSj geabury declared her gen-
spect for the Mexican flag would be er&1 unfitness was shown also «by her
punishable by imprisonment for from severity> her unjudiciai conduct and
six months to four years under a penal her calloug digregard of the rigbts of
code drawn up by a government com- th(j defendants in the women’s court.”
mission for promulgation soon. I An order directing Mrs. Norris to
The code also provides imprison- gh()W cause why ghe should not be
ment of from three days to a year, remoyed from office was served on
or a fine of from $12 to $500 foi per- ber ag gbe presided at a court session,
sons guilty of making improper use Among the intances cited by Mr.
of the national anthem. This last
clause is intended to put a stop to
playing of the hymn in barber shops
and music halls.
BROOKS’ MESSAGE
ENDS BAYLOR YEAR
Seabury are that she made material
changes, or attempted to make them,
in the record of a case before her;
that in another case she “acted, in
reference to the record on appeal, in
a way calculated to rejudice the de-
fendant in her appeal;” that she held
' stock in a bonding company on whose
WACO, May 27. The 1931 giad- obligations she had to pass in her
uating class of Baylor university step- j judicial capacity and that she sane-
ped forth to battle . today, with the . ^ioned tbe exploitation of her judicial
counsel of Dr. Samuel Palmer Brooks, ■ position in the advertisement of a
late president of the university, to commercial product,
guide its steps.^ _ The repor^ included a reproduction
Dr. Brooks, just before his death, ^ 0£ a yeast advertisement featuring
had prepared a message “to the senior Magistrate Norris’ picture and her
class of 1931 to the senior of all years testimonial> for which she. was said
those senior of the past, and those to haye receiyed $1.00o
seniors yet to be.” _
The educator’s counsel was read by gjjjgj? CHOIR PRACTICE
Dean W. S. Allen, long associated with AT BAPTIST CHURCH
Baylor and only yesterday named by
its- regents to take the presidency
temporarily. Two hundred and 79
Mr. Roy Camp would be glad to
meet those who will sing in the choir
graduates were in the hushed assembly during the meeting at the qburch to_
that heard the message.
Dr. W. B. Bizzell of the .University
of Oklahoma, the commencement
speaker, reviewed the outstanding
events of Dr. Brooks’ generation.
SECRETARY AWARDED
$96,265 FOR GIVING
UP MARRIAGE PLANS
LLANO SLAYING CASE IS
SENT TO GEORGETOWN
LLANO, May 28.—The murder case
of Ray Click of Llano, recently re-
versed and remanded by the Court of
Criminals Appeals, was moved to
Georgetown on a change of venue
granted in district court here Thurs-
day by Judge Carl Runge. The case
is set for trial during the Septem-
ber term of court.
Click was given a life sentence at
his trial here last November for the
fatal shooting of C. W. Walker of
Llano September 11, 1930, on a street
here where Walker was operating a
grader.
Click was granted a new trial on
the issue that the prosecutor sought
to get testimony before the jury im-
puting a verbal confession to Click.
Click was delivered to the sheriff of
Williamson County Thursday night.
Bond will be set at Georgetown.
Daily Leader 3 months for $1.00
CHICAGO, May 30.—An unmarried
life brought an award of $96,265 to
Miss Nan Kamp of St. Louis.
The probate court gave her that
amount from the estate of her late
employer, Samuel Levitt, for having
broken an engagement to marry
seven years ago. . She was Levitt’s
secretary.
Mr. Levitt was so upset when I
told him what I was contemplating
marriage that he asked me not to and
promised to bequeath me $100,000 if I
broke off the engagement and re-
mained as his secretary until his
death,” she said. She produced a
written agreement telling of this
promise.
She declined to divulge the name of
her fiance, saying he had since died.
night at 8 o’clock for
practice.
a brief cht/ir
ROME, May 29.—A ban was in effect
today against publication in the press
of reports of recurrent anti-Catholic
demonstrations and denunciations of
the pope by fascist youths.
The censorship also instructed the
press to refrain from referring to at-
tacks made by Lavoro Fascista, fas-
cist organ, against the Azione Catto-
lica. No refei-ence can be made to
che indictments recurrent during the
last week, including the burning of a
photograph of Pope Pius XI.
The cessation of demonstrations
against the Catholics was believed
due to “superior orders” declaring that
he anti-church manifestations of fas-
cist students must stop.
The differences between the Holy
See and the fascists meanwhile are
j-qing discussed through diplomatic
:hannels. It was indicated that the
liffqrences, although troublesome,
fave not become serious and there
vere few indications an open break
would result at this juncture.
Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Dunklin move:
Friday to the place of Mrs. Lee Browr
on West Third street, where they wil
make their home. They have bee
in Lampasas for several days and Mr
Dunklin is in charge of the Sinclai
Refining company agency in this city
They came here from San Angelo ant
are well pleased with this part o
the country and will no doubt sooi
be made to feel at home with th(
Lampasas people.
FALL PETITION TO BE RUSHE1
WASHINGTON, May 29.—T h c
chances for early action by the su
preme court on the petition of Al
bert B. Fall for a review of his con
viction on charges y>f accepting {
$100,000 bribe from Edward L. Do
heny, increased Thursday when Atlec
Pomerene, special government counsel
waived his right to reply to the ap
plication.
Pomerene urged the court to act or
the papers as quickly as possible.
The court probably will decide on
Monday whether it will grant a re-
view of the issues raised by Fall on
Mrs. Carl Savage and little son,
Sari Jr., have returned to their home
in Houston after spending some time
rere with Mrs. Savage’s parents, Mr.
md Mrs. W. G. Gamel. She was ac-
ompanied home by Olan Gamel, Mrs.
Sampbell Seale and Mrs. Glen Gamel
>f Burnet who will spend a short time
in Houston.
vVEST TEXAS HAS
SLOW, STEADY RAIN
SAN ANGELO, Tex., May 29.—
Slow rains had fallen steadily over
nuch of West Texas for 24 hours to
early this afternoon, ranging up to 3
inches at Barnhart and Sterling City.
Three-quarters of an inch fell here.
The moisture extended from the Texas
8: Pacific railroad to the Rio Grande.
Improved range conditions will in-
sure fat livestock for market this
summer, maturity to bumper wheat,
eats and barley crops and added
growth to cotton. Traffic on dirt
•'oads was impeded, but no bus sched-
ules were cancelled.
31 BILLS ARE SIGNED
BY GOVERNOR STERLING
AUSTIN, May 29.—Governor Ross
3. Sterling today signed 31 more bills,
including proposals to remit Orange
county taxes and to amend the con-
federate pensions laws.
Nine-tenths of the state property
tax from Orange county will be re-
mitted to that county for 25 years to
permit the construction of a drain-
age system to prevent land there from
their merite. "The"fo7me7 taterioVsec- | overflowed by salt water
retiary has been sentenced
year’s imprisonment.
to one
TWO WEST VIRGINIA
DEATHS LAID TO HEAT
Clarksburg, W. Va., May 29.—The
death of two men last night and today
was attributed by physicians to a
heat wave that sent; the temperature
yesterday within four degrees of 100
in Northern West Virginia. A tem-
perature of 96 degrees was reported
at Fairmont yesterday.
Under the amended pension law, all
married veterans will receive $50 a
month each.
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FACE GAME TRIALS
AUSTIN, May 29.—Four officials
of the Texas game, fish and oyster
commission will go to trial June 16
on charges of violating the game laws j
by keeping game meat in cold storage
longer than 10 days beyond the close
of the hunting season. The charges
were filed sevei’al months ago follow-
ing a dinner given the legislature by
the commission.
Charged in the complaints were W.
J. Tucker, executive secretary of the
commission); Beall Jester, assistant
secretary, and Clyde Rudisill and Jim
Ferguson, game wardens. A fifth com-
plaint named a cold storage plant op-
erator as accomplice.
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