The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 45, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 21, 1933 Page: 1 of 4
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warmer tonight.
As Senate Began Insull Investigation
vbo allow their
fourteen year old
to roam the
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AUSTIN, Feb. 21.—(UP»— By
unanimous vote the Texak Senate
today adopted a resolution calling
for a constitutional amendment to
abolish the fee system, (
ixas Convention Would be
Held in 1934 According
To-BilL
AUSTIN. Pefb. 21.—(UP.)—The
Senate voted today to ncrease the
salary of the governor aad other
officers. The resolution provides for
raising the governor's salary from
$4000 to $12000.
t they would ap-
some friend
and Informed
children were
Delegates Would be Elect*
ed Like All Other Dis-
trict Officers.
DENVER, CoL, Feb. 21.—(UP.) —
Claude K Boettcher has received
additional notes from the kidnap-
ers of his son but has established
no other contact with them.
AattLtfir the staging of the an-
ual tpnquet in April will be dis-
jssed^when director* of the Ouero
handier of 4 Commerce meet in
iguhur monthly session in the of-
ces .of the C. of C. at the city hall
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WASHINGTON, Ftf>.» 21A-(U.P.)
I — Secretary of State Stimson to-
j (Jay, submitted the amendment
i which would repeal the prohibition
law to the 48 states for ratification
or rejection. "
The history making action was
taken only twenty four hours after
the House had approved the Blaine
resolution creating a new constitu-
tional amendment to repeal the 18th
amendment. The Senate passed the
rescluton last week.
AUSTIN,
GENEVA, Feb. 21.—(UP) —
Japan officially rejected today the
committee repeat to the aasmebly
to the League Of Nations blaming
Japan for event# in Manchuria.
the Senate Stock Market lnves- interests, who was the principal witness as the hear-
began its hearing into the col- ing opened. Center is Senator Wolcott, a member of
ilities empire. At left is Samuel the probing committee, and at right, Ferdinand
> former czar of the vast power Pecora, of New York, counsel to the .committee.
Melancholy Mission
Feb. 21.—(UP.)—A bill
setting up machinery to elect con-
vention delegates to a Texas con-
vention to consider ratification of
repeal of the' Eighteenth Amend-
ment was introduced in the
House today. The bill provides
for delegates to the convention to
be selected in the annual election in
1934. The measure was introduced
by Senator George Purl of Dallas
and Senator Walter Woodward of
Coleman.
Delegates to the convention to be
held as soon after the election as
feasible would be elected in the
manner of any other district offi-
cer, regularly announcing for the
delegate post and going through the
usual official election.
:ve Leaders Confident
$800.00 Goal Will Be
Reached,
AfSnN, Feb- 21—(UP.)—A
mortgage mcraterium for a year was
voted 79 to 31 iil the Texas House
of Representative# today. The bill
fell five votes short of *a' needed 16
Drive leaders in the Cuerb V
movement were hard at work today
as Cueros Y drive officially got
underway, and solicitors were meet-
ing with unusual success according
to early reports.
Every business house in the city
is to be canvassed as well as the
homes, and Cuero business men es-
pecially will be urged to join the
^ *
“If they would just attend (me
session> of ogur clast, they would be
certain to Join.'’ one business man
work
rules and pass finally.
t be krought up at an-
who is benefiting ^rom the
declared Tuesday. -:
\l oiames are aow flpn tufr *
and the business who
turning out for the evening -classes
300 Million Aid
7'f"‘Votidl Jby Senate
WASHINGTON, FW>. 21.—(UP:V
Tbp Senate voted Monday to make
in additional $300,0064)00 in federal
funds’ available to combat economic
diskette throughout the nation.
The action came on a bill by Sen-
ator Wagner, (Dem.) New York,
which would malte the additional 1
funds available for state unemploy-
ment loans and liberalize the Re-
construction Finance corporation
law* to permit a wider building pro-
gram.* 1
The vote to substitute the Wag- .1
ner bill for the $500,000,000 La Fol- <
letbe-Costigan relief measure, pro- 1
vkiing direct federal grants to 1
states, was 53 to 16. The measure
now goes to the house, where pas- *
sage is considered doubtful
Loans by the Reconstruction PI- 1
nance corporation, under the terms 1
of the Wagner bill, would be pefr- f*
misstble on state and municipal
projects “needful and in the public *
interest." At present these projects 1
come under the self liquidating 1
provision of the corporation act 1
and are subject to rigid restricting. *
Interest rates on all construction 1
loans would be limited to I per cent 1
more than the government now pays
on long term financial obligations. 1
The.Wagner measure also in- 3
the present drive, and leaders
to put the movement over in r<
time.
Wearing a heavy mourning veil,'
Mrs. William K. Vinderbilt, daugh-
ter-in-law of the late. Mrs. Oliver
H. P. Belmont, is shown as she left
the pier after meeting the liner
Beraagaria, Which brought the body
of Mrs. Belmont back to New York
for burial. The grand old lady,
who once ruled undisputed* over
New York's “Four Hundred.” died
in Paris.
Wearing a heavy mourning
Mrs. William K. Vinderbilt, d< „
tor-in-law of the late. Mrs. Oliver
Reported Not To
Be Resting Well
Ctiftek asetion. who
fore 1 o’clock Man-
lowing a lingering
MIAMI, Feb. 21—(UP)—Physic-
ians continued their optimistic re-
port on the condition of Mayor
Cermak of Chicago today but pri-
vate reports indicated his con-
dition was less favorable than was
supposed. Mayor Cermak has
spent several restless nights and
.has suffered considerable pain.
Jap War Machine
Crippled Tuesday
Sendees were * from the Hodge
home at Clear Creek, and interment
was In the Wallace cemetery.
H. M. Hodge, son #f Dr. and
Mrs. A. J. Hodge, was bom March
36, 1859 on the Hodge farm at Clear
Greek. He spent his entire life
in this oounty and was one of Clear
Creek’s mdst respected farmers.
In June of 1897 he was united in
marriage to Miss Abble Wallace. To
this union was bom seven children,
three of whom preceded him In
death. Surviving in addition to his
bereaved wiffe are: two sons. Ellas
W. and Melkdlle. and two daugh-
ters, Mrs. Irvin Kasper and Miss
Merle Kpdge. -Three grand children
Rev. Wood H. Patrick officiated at
the services and E. J. Freund was
in charge of interment.
PIEPING. China, Feb 21:— <tfP>
—The Japanese war machine in
Manchuria posed for a nanslaught
aimed to drive ^ 150,000 * Chinese
troops from Jehol was crippled, to-
day by Chinese troops, when an
important railway line was blown
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Frels and
two sons, Lawrence and Fehner of
Concrete were visitors in Cuero
Tuesday.
Weird Cult Slaying
eludes $15ff004)00 to be spent for
care | of unemployed transients,
who are victims of the* depression.
be back.
Filling the pi
Edgar and Shi
Honey’s biggest
More Than 100 Die
In Chinese Blast
fications and urged Everyone to
get behind the movement and put
over a real “Y” in Ouero.
. Major Blake addressed the stu-
dents explaining the civic nature
of the program and hew badly a
lynuiatfiisi was needed here. The
Maps’ followed this by a piano
monologue which he alleged was
composed principally by Principal
O. A. Zimmerman and dedicated
to Coach W. C. Holly, called the
"Man with the single hair.”
Superintendent Melton thanked
the group for their visit and call-
ed upon the school, to iget behind
the movement which will mean so
much to Cuero.
CAPTAIN MAY
SUCCEED BEAR ADMIRAL
PHILADELPHIA, Peb. 29.—,(UP )
—Captain Sam C. Looms may suc-
ceed Rear' Admiral Lucius A. Bost-
wick as temporary commandmant of
the Philadelphia Navy Yard, it was
indicates here following a report
from the Bureau Of Navigation in
Washington. Captain Loomis is how
stationed at the Yard.
Captain Loomis will fulfill the
duties of Admiral Bdstwick, who
retires on the 28th of this month,
until the new Secretary cf the Navy
appoints some one ,to the position
permanently. Selection of B06twick’s
successor will be one of the new Sec-
retary's first official acts.
SHANGHAI,' Feb. 21—(UP) _
Bodies of approximately 100 vic-
tltms -of two exploding gasoline
tanks at the 8umgrah Rubber Vul-
canizing plant here were recovered
late today.
. Police expected the death toll to
be considerably greater. Most of
the victims were girls employed in
the plant. It was repotted 160
girls were missing.
The cause of theh explosion was
not determined. , The tanks blew
up with a terrific roar, setting fire
to the plant.
J. W. Lester of McAllen has
opened an office at Yoakum and
win work this territory qp District
Manager for the Active Sales Com-
pany of McAllen, he announced
Tuesday. He will serve about ten
towns in the selling of growing
business concerns.
Lester was located in .this terri-
tory one season in tomato activi-
ties and is well acquainted with
Death of Young
Wo wan it Probed
ACROBATICS MAY LOSE
DAMAGE SUIT FOR MAN
Bank* and Court
House to Close
For Holiday
President-Elect
Given Much Pow
SEATTLE. Feb. 20.—<U.P.)—The
fact that Arthur Knuston could
k(ck as high as hfs .head and touch
the floor with the palms of his
! hands probably will lose him his
case for $20,000 damages. He assert-
j.edly suffered injuries in an automo-
HOU8TON, Feb. 21.—(UP.)—De-
tails of the seven story plunge re-
sulting in the death of Ivy Young,
22, New York divorcee and former
actress, were to be heard today at
an examining trial for H. M. Ed-
ward#, 37, who said he was an avi-
ator living at Reno, Nevada.
Edwards is charged with murder
ir connection with the death of the
woman who early Sunday dropped
from a window in the Ben Milam
hotel.
Cu|ro's two banks and the De-
Witt county court house will be the
only institutions to observe Wasfir
ing ton's, birthday, February 22nd,
with a holiday. The Farmer’s State
Buchel
WASHINGTON. Feb. 21—(UJP.)
—Far reaching powers were voted
to President-elect Roosevelt today
by the House to recognize the cost-
ly Federal structural
Democrats voted down an amend-1
ment offered by Representative
Ready which would have restricted
the incoming executive’s grant of
Exhausted after five days of fasting and religious frenzy, John H. Mills,
36, is shown in Martin County jail, Kentucky, where he is held charged
with the slaying of his 72-year-o!d imother, Mrs. Lucinda Mills, during
a weird cult rite at their mountain shack at Inez. Ky. Seven other
members of the cult, who are said 10 have been present at the ghastly
rites, are also held, among them the four men shown in upper picture.
They are, left to right, Fred Mills, brother of John. Ballard Mills, grand-
son of the slain woman, Tom Boyd and Bl*ihe McGims, sons-in-law of
Bank and the Buchel National
Bank have announced they will re-
main closed throughout the day.
Court house employes will also en-
joy a full holiday. . *
the victim.
‘-4,'cr * Booi*
Is not delivered
mow a bit of in-
Che Cuevo lie cord
A NEWSPAPER REFLECTS ITS COMMUNITY
CUERO, TEXAS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1933
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Howerton, J. C. The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 45, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 21, 1933, newspaper, February 21, 1933; Cuero, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1073010/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Cuero Public Library.