The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 304, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 28, 1931 Page: 4 of 4
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The Lampasas Daily Leader
S. H. Abney Herbert Abney
J. H. ABNEY & SON
Ovnera and Publishers
Entered at the postoffice at Lampasas
Kerch 7, 1904, as second-class mail.
THE LAMPASAS DAILY LEADER
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
(Payable in Advance)
"One month___1-----------------1 *40
Three months —--------------$1.00
One year-----------$4.00
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The following announcements are
made, subject to the action of the city
election to be held Tuesday, April
7, 1931:
For City Marshal:
W. A. (Buck) CRAFT.
For City Secretary, Assessor and
Tax Collector:
KYLE OLIVER.
1,000 CHECKS FOR LOANS
TO VETS IN MAIL TODAY
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—A thou-
sand checks were scheduled to be on
their way to veterans by Saturday.
Veterans Administrator Hines re-
vealed this within an hour after the
senate voted today to override the
president’s veto of the loan bill.
Orders went forth immediately to
start lending.
Within five minutes after the sen-
ate had voted the central office of the
veterans bureau released the first loan
check.
TEXAS GRANITE FOR MONU-
MENT TO ROOSEVELT
MARBLE FALLS, Tex., Feb. 27.—
G. G. Darragh of Granite Mountain
has just returned from New York,
where he secured the Contract for the
$3,000,000 Roosevelt ‘Monument of
New York City, to furnish granite
from the Texas Pink Granite Com-
pany, at Granite Mountain, one and
pne-half miles from Marble Falls. It
will take three years to complete this
contract. A large crew of men will
secure work at Granite Mountain now.
VALUE OF CERTIFICATE
SET BY SERVICE DAYS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—Here is
how the value of veterans compensa-
tion certificates is determined:
Each formejr soldier, sailor, ma-
rine or coast guardsman and those
in any other branch of the military
service during the world war was
given $1 per day for service at home
and $1.25 for overseas service.
To this was added 25 per cent of
the total, which, with 4 per cent in-
terest compounded annually, forms the
actual maturity value of his certificate.
Bill Strihling left Saturday morn-
ing for his home at Sandy near John-
son City where he goes to recuperate
from a broken arm. Mr. Stribling who
has been working in Taylor for a time
spent the past few days here in the
home of his uncle and aunt, Mr. and
Mrs. W. E. Moore.
CONSTIPATION HIS
Black-Draught Praised By Illi-
nois Woman Who Tells of Its
Many Uses In Her Home.
Cairo, HL—“I have used Black-
Draught in my home for fifteen
years, and it is a splendid medicine,”
writes Mrs. Bernice Brack, of 2301
Thirty-second Street, this city.
“Sometimes I am subject to colds
and constipation, and I find it to
be the finest thing for this.
“My mother used Thedford’s
Black-Draught in her home for
years, and it was there that I began
taking it. She thought it was so
good that she had me to use it, and I
have never found any medicine that
would take its place satisfactorily.
"I find Black-Draught fine for
sour stomach and gas. A few doses
taken for several nights rid the sys-
tem of poison due to constipation and
it makes me feel like a new person.
“I try to keep Black-Draught al-
ways on hand, and I treat all small
illness with it. I can certainly rec-
ommend it for I have found it very
good and dependable.”'
In thousands of families, this
medicine has a comer all its own
on the medicine shelf.
Thedford’s Black-Draught con-
tains no chemicals. Composed of
pure botanical roots and herbs.
Get the genuine Thedford’s Black-
Draught which has been in use
nearly 100 years. hc.«»
smmm.
Indigestion. Biliousness
THE HARKEYS
1 CHIROPRACTIC
HEALTH SERVICE
Licensed Chiropractors — X-Ray
“You’ve Tried The Rest
r—Now Try The Best”
liberty is ^ranted
CONTINUANCE ON NEW
LIBEL TRIAL MOTION
FORT WORTH, Feb. 27.A continu-
ance until tomorrow was granted to-
day by Federal Judge Wilson in the
hearing of a motion of Liberty Week-
ly, Incorporated, for new trial of a
case in which $25,000 damages were
awarded the widow of Temple Hous-
ton for alleged libel of her late hus-
band’s name in an article published
in the magazine.
The postponement was granted be-
cause W. P. McLean, defense attor-
ney, was in the midst of trial of an-
other case.
Mrs. Houston charged her husband’s
memory was defamed by statements
in a Liberty Magazine article that
Temple Houston was the offspring of
a marriage of Gen. Sam Houston with
an Indian woman.
VETERANS’ LOAN BILL
IS MADE A LAW
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—Congress
today opened the treasury to increas-
ed loans to world war veterans over
the objection of President Hoover.
The veterans’ loan relief bill became
law when the senate voted 76 to 17
to disregard the presidential veto af-
ter acrimonious debate which brought
demonstrations from the crowded gal-
eries. By a simlar decisive margin
the house yesterday overrode the “no”
of Mr. Hoover.
The legislation allows the veterans
to borrow up to half the face value
^ of their compensation certificates
which were allowed by congress seven
years ago over the veto of President
Coolidge.
Veterans’ Administrator Hines to-
night began employing additional help
to meet the demands from the 3,400,-
000 certificate holders eligible to ob-
tain the loans.
The average loan available to the
former service men will be $500. In-
terest of 4% per cent is charged.
While the President feared the treas-
ury would be called upon for $1,000,-
000,000 by the legislation, others esti-
mated the demand would not amount
to much over half that amount.
A little later President Hoover an-
nounced he had issued orders to the
veterans’ bureau to give complete
priority to veterans in need in admin-
istering the loans. One of the objec-
tions he raised in his veto message
was that it was ayplicable to all vet-
erans alike and that some veterans
in need of aid would not benefit by it.
“Although I have been opposed to
the bonus bill,” the president said,
“now that it has passed we propose
to facilitate its working in every way.”
IT’S EASY, BUT—
It looks pretty easy to rob a bank,
in fact any kind of thieving is not
very difficult. 1 But getting away with
it is difficult. Four banks have been
robbed in Texas during the past 30
days. Four mep robbed a bank at
Canyon City. Three are in jail and
the fourth one is known and is a fugi-
tive, having a family in want. The
bank at Montgomery was robbed by
four men. All of them were arrested
in Houston the next day as they were
in a room counting and dividing the
loot.
It has been said of old that the
way of the transgressor is hard and
its true now as it was when written,
Crime is a delusion; it never pays.—
Marshall Morning News.
CATTLE TAKE TO GRASS
SAN ANGELO, Tex., Feb. 26.—J.
M. Patton, president of the First State
Bank at Paint Rock, says that the
cattle have to be penned up on the
wheat and oat fields now as the grass
is getting so green in the draws that
when they leave the wheat fields to
go to water they just stay out on the
pastures. Ranchers in this section
have thousands of acres of grain this
year and it is getting so rank that
it is taking all their stock to keep it
down. Some ranches are driving the
stock to water like a bunch of milk
cows and then driving them back to
the wheat fields and closing the gate.
MAN SEEKING CITIZENSHIP
HAS 33-LETTER NAME
DETROIT, Feb. 26.—“What is your
name?” asked Ted Madden, federal
naturalization examiner, of a prospec-
tive candidate for citizenship.
“My nickname,” the candidate re-
plied, “is Vazil Ferencsik.”
“But your full name wjll have to
go into the official records,” Madden
explained.
“All right,” Vazil said with a sigh.
“My real name is Vazil Rasko Fera-
[rravoceincifioioceuigearmociccou. I’ll
spell it for you.”
Miss Bess Northington, who is pres-
ident of the district organization of
1 High School Home Economics stu-
dents, spent Saturday in Brownwood
in attendance at a meeting of the or-
ganization.
BILL WOULD PERMIT
MISSOURIANS TO CARRY
DEADLY FIREARMS
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., Feb. 26.—
All adult Missourians, or persons who
come into the State, would be per-
mitted to carry “deadly firearms of
not less than .32 nor more than .45
dalibre” on .account of the “crime
wave,” under a bill introduced in the
House of the Legislature today by
Representative J. C. Putnam, (Rep.),
of Howell County.
Cemetery Association meets Mon-
day at 3 o’clock with Mrs. E. Cau-
then. Important business.
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Donnell and son,
S. T. Donnell went to Temple Satur-
day morning to see their daughter
and sister, Miss Vada, who is a patient
in a hospital in that city.
HEADLIGHT LAW A FAILURE
The Texas headlight law serves no
other purpose than to force automo-
bile owners to contribute 25 cents to
some garage owner in return for a
slip of paper. This receipt for an al-
leged examination and adjustment of
headlights costs automobile owner of
Texas approximately $300,000 per
year.
The headlight law, we once thought,
was good legislation. Its purpose was
to reduce the danger of night driving,
but like a great many other laws, no
effort has ever been made to enforce
it. Some testing stations are actually
conscientious in the performance of
their duty, but many take a glance
at a car, write a receipt and collect
their two bits.
Although only a few wleks have
elapsed since new licenses were is-
sued, one; may count cars by the
hundreds that travel our highways at
night without a tail light, and fre-
quently with only one headlight burn-
ing. Some of these cars had the tail
light fixture broken off at the time
they received their light certificate.
Most of them would not burn, but
the alleged official testers took no,
notice of them. The car without a j
tail light has no place on the high-
ways after sundown. They are a men-
ace to life and property, for a car
ahead cannot be seen by the driver of
a car following, in the event another
car approaching.
In the cities about once a year, the
police, or some highway officer are in-
structed to arrest all drivers of cars
not properly equipped. These good in-
tentions last about one week, and then
instructions are withdrawn. It appears
that our enforcement officers are to
wink at law-breakers unless they re-
ceive instructions to arrest them.—
Farm and Ranch.
WHEN A MAN DIES
(Winters Enterprise)
When a man dies he is missed in
proportion as he has rendered service
to the individuals of the community.
We miss the man who passes our
door every day, in a measure, when
he dies, but there is no pang of sense
of loss, merely the sense of absence
of a familiar, customary object. The
individual is most missed who has ren-
dered a service for us, who has given
us some of his life. We miss a child
whose youth and sunshine and hap-
piness have cheered us, the child has
contributed to our lives the service
of cheer. We miss the man whose
presence seemed a strength on which
we could lean, a rock in a weary land,
behind whose shadow we might rest.
It seems like a harsh and cruel phil-
osophy, but think it over. Do you
ever really miss those who have not
contributed something to your life,
that has helped you over the rough
and steep places, or has helped to
bolster and cheer up the lagging spirit
and given you new courage and new
hope and new strength and a better
grip on things? These are the people
we miss when they go. And so if we
in turn desire to be missed when we
are gone, we must make that contri-
bution to others lives.
A GOOD ONE ,
The following from the Fort Payne
Journal is one of ’the best ones the
discussion of business conditions has
produced:
“Over on San Mountain the other
day a discussion on Biblical subjects
took a sudden and queer turn. The
argufiers or disputants happened to
be a Democrat and a Republican. The
Republican put a question to the other
which he thought would surely stall
him. He asked him why the three
Hebrew children were not consumed
when they were cast into the fiery
furnace. The Democrat, without even
scratching his semi-bald pate, re-
plied, “The Republicans were in pow-
er, and the furnace was shut down.”
—Our Mountain Home.
SOME GAL
Liza, you remind me fo’ all de
world ob brown sugar.
How cum, Sam?
Yo am so sweet an’ so unrefined.
AGAIN!
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WE WILL GIVE
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GREEN STAMPS .
BEGINNING MONDAY, MARCH 2, WE WILL AGAIN GIVE GREEN
STAMPS WITH PURCHASES IN ANY DEPARTMENT OF OUR BUSI-
NESS.
Judging from expressions we have heard since the discon-
tinuance of Green Stamps last year, we believe this will be
hailed by ithe thrifty buyers of Lampasas as the best news
item of the year. Green Stamps really do mean something
—there are many useful, .lovely items that can be had with
them and at absolutely no additional cost whatsoever in the
price of the merchandise you buy.
WE ISSUE "AW GREEN DISCOUNTS T A MPS
FUNERAL DIRECTORS—AMBULANCE SERVICE
CHAIN STORE TAX MEAS-
URE AGAIN KILLED
PROCEDURE FOR VETERANS TO
GET LOANS UNDER ACT
OUTLINED
AUSTIN,. Feb. 27.—Like the old
;at, the chain store tax bill seems to
lave, a flock of lives. It has now ac-
cumulated its third death.
The house committee on revenue
md taxation would not accord it one
vote last night following a brief hear-
ing. So there won’t be a chance for
it to come to the floor of the house,
aven on a minority report—a method
which this legislature frequently em-
ploys fhen a measure can’t muster as
many as two votes in committee. This
is the third time this legislature has
killed a chain store tax bill. .
The bill acted on last night was
one by Representative Clarence E.
Farmer of Fort Worth. It would have
placed an occupation tax- of $100 on
each store above one in a chain of
two, or more.
He claimed it was held constitu-
tional by the North Carolina Supreme
Court, but admitted that it had not
yet been ruled on by the United States
Supreme Court.
George H. Zimmerman of Waco,
representing 77 lumber yards of Wil-
liam Cameron & Co., lodged the first
protest. He said the lumber yards did
largely a credit business and helped
many people build homes on the in-
stallment plan. It is largely a home
industry, he said, and such a tax
would thus penalize an industry of
the greatest power in developing the
state.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—Here’s
what a veteran has to do to borrow
half the face value of his adjusted
compensation certificate:
If he has obtained a loan he may
present in person or mail to one of
the fifty-four regional offices the rec-
ord of it and the application for more.
Those who have not received loans,
must mail to the office or present a
certified note to that effect along with
discharge papers and the certificate.
Notes can be obtained from the re-
gional offices and veterans' organiza-
tions.
From there on the loan is in the
hands of the Veterans’ Bureau, which
heretofore has issued loans within ten
days of receiving (applications and
hopes to continue issuing at about the
same rate.
The regional offices are in Atlanta,
Boise, Fargo, Fort Harrison, Mont.;
Hines, 111.; Minneapolis, Portland,
Ore.; Somerset Hills, N. J.;-Albuquer-
que, Baltimore, Birmingham, Boston,
Buffalo, Burlington, Vt.; Casper, Wyo.;
Charleston, W. Va.; Charlotte, N. C.;
Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbia, S. C.;
Dallas, Denver, Des Moines, Detroit,
Hartford, Conn.; Indianapolis, Jack-
son, Miss.; Jacksonville, Fla.; Kansas
What’s Wrong With Texas
Nothing’s wrong with Texas,, ex-
:ept to many of us get up in the morn-
ng at the alarm of a Connecticut
dock, button a pair of Ohio suspend-
trs to a pair of Chicago pants. Put
>n a pair of Massachusetts shoes,
vash in a Pittsburgh tin basin, using
Cincinnati soap, and a cotton towel
nade in New Hampshire, sit down
;o a Grand Rapids table, eat pan cakes
nade from Minneauolis flour spread
vith Vermont maple syrup and Kansas
rncon fried on a St. Louis stove. Buy
Tuit put up in California, seasoned
vith Rhode Island spices, and sweet-
;ned with ’ Colorado sugar. Put on a
lat matle in Philadelphia, hitch a
Detroit mule fed on Oklahoma gaso-
ine to an Ohio plow and work all
lay on a Texas farm covered with a
Slew England mortgage, send our
noney to Ohio for tires, wondering
vhy Texas taxes are $2.75 per acre
vhile Ohio farmers pay $1.00 tax and
Irive on paved roads, and at night we
:rawl under a New Jersey blanket to
)e kept awake by a bull dog, the only
lome product on the place, wondering
ill the time, where in the hell all the
noney went in this wonderful state
)f ours.—Exchange.
DETECTOR PROVES
EFFECTIVE IN GETTING
BACK “LOST” BOOKS
CHICAGO, Feb. 27—There’s power
the lie detecter.
The other day Prof. Rodney Mott
the University of Chicago said to
s class:
“I will give you just 24 hours to
turn to the library five valuable
>oks W|i constitutional law, taken
iviously by some of you. If the
turn is not made within the time
ecified, I shall have each of you
bjected to a test of the lie detecter.”
Yesterday the five books were back
iere they belonged. So, too, were
re otheral missing from the pre-1J
aus semester.
City, Mo.; Little Rock, Los Angeles,
Louisville, Manchester, N. II.; Mil-
waukee, Nashville, New Orleans, New
York, Oklahoma City, Omaha, Phila-
delphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Portland,
Maine; Providence, Reno, Richmond,
Salt Lake City, San Antonio, San
Francisco, Seattle, Souix Falls, St.
Louis, Washington, ID. C., and Wich-
ita, Kansas.
Here is how the value of veterans’
compensation certificates is deter-
mined:
Each former soldier, sailor, marine
or- coast guardsman and those in any
other branch of the military service
during the World War was given $1
per day for service at home and $1.25
for overseas service.
To this was added 25 per cent of the
total which, with 4 per cent interest
compounded annually forms the actual
maturity value of his certificate.
STERLING SIGNS BILL ON
THREAT AS FELONY
AUSTIN, Tex., Feb. 27.—Gov. Ross
S. Sterling has signed and filed in the
office of the Secretary of State House
Bill No. 180 by Representative Homer
DeWolfe of Mills County, making it
a felony to threaten the life of a
person, to burn his property and ex-
tortion. The penalty is set at net
less than five years nor more than
25 years.
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The Latest 1931
CORONA
No radical changes.
But some interesting refinements and a few
added features.
For one thing you may now have a paper bail
on your Corona, if you prefer the bail to paper
fingers. /
You may also order your machine equipped with
1, li/2, 2 line spacing. All typewriters will space
singje or double between lines, but the 1 *4 space
is something new. It gives a very pleasing effect
to a letter and allows you to get more words on a
page,
There are other interesting things to learn
about the latest Corona. We will gladly explain
them fuly if you will drop in or phone us.
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The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 304, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 28, 1931, newspaper, February 28, 1931; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth905856/m1/4/?q=waco+tornado: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lampasas Public Library.