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Partly cloudy Saturday,
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VOL. 41.—NO. 192.
CUERO, TEXAS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1935
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MffiwnmjGUERO MOURNS DEATH OF PIONEERjFAMOUS HUMORIST AND
NOTED FLIER KILLEO
£8
^ . campaign
Chamber of Commerce
drive leaders during the next
’few days will renew their
for funds to sup-
the proposed two year
|j|$farm development program
iV In the Cuero trade area. Re-j
suits to date have been,
? heartening, but there is much I
territory yet to be covered.! —
Thl^vprogram is without a; Ninety Year
I: doubt one of the most im-
portant programs tackled by
this city in many years. It
provides for a movement that
the Cuero trade area has
been needing for a decade.
The success of this program
Pill govern to a large degree,! ___
future prosperity Of J Eternal sleep today had closed in
0, As an agricultural i peaceful rest, the eyes of another i
uinty we must • depend
the prosperity of agri-
;ture for our own prosper-
ity. We cannot depend upon
industry. We cannot
upon an oil field as some of
SERVICES FOR
MRS. WOFFORD
SATURDAY
Old Cuero
Woman Claimed by
Sudden Death.
EARLY RESIDENT
Had Made Her Home Here
For More Than Half
Century.
Women Strikers Parade in Detroit Meat Boycott
15* — *
city’s
Mrs.
beloved
Josephine
pioneer |
Stevens i
of this
women.
Wofford.
Death came shortly before 3
o'clock Thursday afternoon with
little warning, and the end was
depend j sreotle, the 90 year old Cuero woman
lapsing into that deep sleep from |
— -------- ” | which there is no awakening with- |
I OUT neighboring cities a:e do-!out the realization that the final j
ing—we must defend upon i summons was near at hand.
i Funeral services are to be held i
agriculture,, and until weifrom the home at 9:30 Saturday !
raise agriculture to tlie pros- | morning with Reverend Clark, !
»« —« ■ «> S’Kssats.vt't!
FARMERS HALT
FORECLOSURE
SALE OF FARM
Missouri Farmers Seize
Courthouse and Defy
Officers.
SALE
Sale
ALASKAN TRAI
naiifc
mOKI
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.—(INS)—Motor failure
their plane was only 50 feet above a small river in an
ed section of desolate Alaska, 15 miles south of Point BmkmI
caused the accident which resulted in the tragic death el
Will Rogers and Wiley Post, according to an official report re-
ceived at the war department today from the army signal
HALTED^ headQuarters at Point Barrow.
The graphic report of the 'tragedy stated that both
ers and Post had apparently been killed instantly when
plane crashed. The bodies were found in the wrecked
by Staff Sergeant
of Farm is Prevent-
ed at Platts-
burg.
As peace parleys failed to bring an end to the
meat strike in Detroit, militant housewives threat-
ened to start boycotts against other commodities.
The women started the strike, asking for a 20 per
cent cut in the price of meat. Leaders claim they
Women striker* parade the streets.
will continue it all summer if their demands are
not met. Meat shops have been picketed since the
strike broke out in a suburb three weeks ago.
Above photo shows the housewives parading in the
streets, carrying strike banners.
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ago, we are going.to see little
Change in business conditions
l jbkCuoro. Let’s get behind this
program and put it over. It’s
to your benefit, it’s to my
benefit and in fact the bene-
fit of every citizen of this
city;
* * *
^ ■ In the death of Mrs. Jose-
phine Wofford, Cuero and
DeWitt county lost a pioneer
citizen, a beloved and re-
spected woman. Mrs. Wofford
had spent most.of her life In
this county. She came from
that stock of early pioneers
that is to be admired, a stock
tha.t is fast dwindling^ All
Cuero will mourn the passing
of this respected woman, but
can be sympathized by the
knowledge that she had lived
a useful life and was prepared
to meet her Maker,
v, * * st-
BALLOT BOXES
ARE PREPARED
cal Baptist church, officiating. E. J.
Freund will direct interment in
Hillside cemetery.
While the death of this well
known woman strikes at the hearts
£r«S2iS% c“ ^ady For Distribution
community, there is consolation in j Over DeWittt
the knowledge that her life had Pnnnf
been long, happy and useful, and | tOliniJ.
that £he end found her prepared to !
meet her Maker. | Boxes to be used in the referen
A woman who had written her l dum on August 24th were
name on human hearts in love and
—
DeWitt County Shows Cash
Balance Of $114,541.92 On
Hand at Close of Fiscal Year
MAYSVILLE, Mo., Aug. 16. —
(INS.)—A group of approximately
150 enraged farmers seized the De-
• kalb county courthouse here today,
stating they would not permit of-
ficers to hold the foreclosure sale
of the farm of C. A. Schottel this
afternoon.
A majority of the farmers were
member* of a mob that held United
States Marshal Henry Dillingham
and three aides prisoners three
hours yesterday at Plattsburgh, 20
miles south of here, when the of-
ficers attempted a foreclosure sale
ordered by Federal Judge Merill E.
Otis Qf Kansas City.
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‘Lea Miserable*”
New Screen Drama
DeWitt county had a cash bal-
ance of $114,541.92 at the close of
the fiscal year ending July 31st,
1935, as compared to only $85,038.82
on August 1st, 1934;? the annual re-
kindness, she will live long after
death, in reverence and memory.
Mrs. Josephine Wofford had made
the city of Cuero her home for
for distribution Friday.
Voting places will be maintain-
ed at the Muenter Shop, Court
House, City Hall, Thomaston. Ar-
neckeville. Meversviile, West York-
ready port filed by County Auditor Nic
Ladner with the DeWitt Commis-
sioners' Court Friday revealed.
The report showed total county-
wide bonds to be $113,000 total
more than half a century. i town. Nordheim, Davy. Nopal. Lin-
Born in Rarikin county. Missis- J denau, Clinton, Valley Viey, Hoch-
sippi. on October 31st, 1844, the ! heim. Concrete. Center, Hochheim.
daughter of Joe and Sarah Ann I Prairie, West Yoakum. Terryville.
Stevens, she came to Texas when a j Stratton, Cabeza. Westhoff. East
baby of only a few months Her j Yorktown, East Yoakum, Little
p&rents settled in the little commu-j ciwcago, Hermann Sons Hall,
nity of Concrete, and it was there | Cuero; Lander and Five Mile,
that she grew to young girlhood. j voters who have been casting
She received her education in their ballots at Edgar will vote in
Baylor college, located in those days ; the Concrete, box.
in the little city of Independence. | Voters are to cast their ballots
She returned to Concrete during ; on seven proposed amendments to
the war of 1865 and shortly there- ! the Xexas constitution. -
marriage ‘ *
the balance
treasurer on uc
have been ^
itor Ladner showed
held by the county
August 1st. 1934, to
$85,038.82; total receipts during the
fiscal year to have been $205,049.60;
total balance and receipts on July
31st, 1935, to be $290,088.22. less-to-
tal disbursements during the fiscal
year of $175,546.50; leaving a bal-
ance on July 31st, 1935, of $114.-
• .
Frederic
district bonds to be $770,500 and,'541-92-
the total bonded indebtedness of Following is an itemized report of
receipts and disbursements for the
fiscal year:
. tne war or iboo ant
f after was united* in marriage to J
John T. Wofford. The happy young I
k )
We haven’t been blamed as
yet for the hot weather, but
ojpe lady has informed us
4hat the publicity being given
the thief who has been mak-
ing the rounds in Cuero dur-
ing the past few weeks is
somewhat responsible for his
crimes. “He reads those stories
and thinks he’s so smart that ens' Mrs R p Breedcn of Cuero
' 1 Mrs. H. A. Mugge of Cuero, Mrs.
Alex Hamilton of Cuero, Ft. B. j
Wofford of Houston and John T. t
New Levels Friday
i roudIp then moved to Clinton, at ; PorL- Prices A \
that time county 'seat of DeWitt'* * ° 1
county, and upon removal of the
county seat to Cuero, they left Clin-
ton and took up residence on the
Wofford ranch. Fifty one years ago EAST ST. LOUIS, 111., Aug. 16.—
they came to Cuero, and since that (INfl> The highest price in six
time Mrs. Wofford had made her [ Ws- *12-25 Ppr hundred pounds,
home here. jwas 8*ven for a lot of 10 hogs at
To the union eleven children were ^he National Stockyards here to-
bom, eight of whom survive. Thev J day. Earlier in the day. a five- 1
are: Mrs. W. R. Rathbone of Aus- j >’ear hiBh was established by the
tin, Mrs. A. H. Easterling of Ath- j of 70 head for $12.15. i Paid
Paid from
the county to be $883,500.
In a summary of his report Aud-
RECEIPTS
Advalorem collections ........ ..........
Auto collections ...................................... ........
Supplemental collections .......... ...........................
From county polls, insolvents, and redemptions ...
Fees: Beer license, occupation, steno., jury and excess
Refund of gas tax, state comptroller, et
Refund from all other sources ..............
Interest by collector ...........
Interest on Daily Balances .... _................
Received from use of county machinery
Received from sale sundry county and district property
Received from personal checks
Received from redemption of ft & B
Received from fines and forfeitures
.....
$110,687.84
55.452 15
126.08
15.212.04
March and Charles
Laughton play fugitive and pursuer
in the most celebrated of all fic-
tional man-hunts in Darryl Zan-
uck’s 20th Century production of
ictor Hugo’s “Les Miserabies,’'
which -plays Sunday and Monday
at the Rialto Theatre.
March is seen as Hugo's ill-star-
red young hero, Jean Valjean, who
spends five bitter years * on a
French prison ship for stealing a
loaf of bread and then becomes a
fugitive from justice by violating
his parole. Laughton is Javert, the!
fanatical detective, whose devotion j
°f thfefew drives him j Mayor Rossi: “NofTtoven’T Jme
■225“? * 6 ref°rmed H to settle the strike, not much, Los
convict s traih Angeles sent me up here to cheer it
£ ? i ‘ , * C S* dLSUn- I on and swipe vour industries.”
gmshed English stage and screen f when he inaugurated as
nnTr r HS H 1Cn?rStW1lni May°r of B™>rly Hills Calif., in
pair as the benevolent Bishop
ROGERS WON
NATION’S LOVE
Ready and Sometimes
Barbed Wit Won Him
Place with People.
By International News Service.
His ready and sometimes barbed
wit, directed at the mighty more
often than the lowly, won for Will
Rogers a place in the hearts of the
American publiqj Sharp as the
famous Rogers wisecracks some-
times were, they never were offen-
sive. * **
Some of his best gems were re-
called today.
In 1932, Rogers met a Filipino
government clerk and “promised”
freedom to the Island^ adding.
“What do you want independence
for yowu’ll get along as bad as we are
then. We’ve got independence, and
look at us. You’ve got to have a
sense of humor to have indepen-
dence nowadays. >’
At the time the comedian was
recruiting a “joke commission” as
a new arm of the government.
During the general strike in San
Francisco last year. Rogers went
there from Los Angeles and told
Bienu. whose faith starts the de-
fi—.....
2.159.79
87.00
1,011.44
Les
a screen play by
5,176.33 grad2d galley slave cn the road toe5
al 1 615 821ward a better life.
Richard Boleslav.sk: ^directed
Miserabies” from
W. R. Lipscomb.
Rochelle Hudson. Frances Drake
. and John Beal are featured in the
1.106.76
247.55 ■ eludes such popular
439.03 j guished players as
dridge. who is
:
1926, Rogers told his well-wishers:
“I won’t promise an honest ad-
mi rust ration, but 111 promise to
split fifty-fifty with you, and if we
can’t make expenses that way,
we'll start a tabernacle. I’ll do
the preaching and well get Ben
j Turpin to run the radio station, i
St&ifey
Morgan, in charge ot
army signal corps at *
Barrow.
Both bodies were
and a crushed wrist
Wiley Post’s wrist
that the accident
shortly after eight o’
night. The watch had
at 8:18 p. m.
According to the tale
by the natives, who were
the river. Post and Rogt
their plane on the stream
ers walked over to salt
way to Point Bamwr. Sal
After receiving directions
flyers took off again, bat.’
fifty * feet off the water the
♦mtegrtd and the sMp dofe
right bank of the btream,
the right wing off.
forced the nose of tail
the fuaeleage, apparently . *
both men instantly.
Morgan found the wreck
ty submerged tn two felt g
fie first recovered
was forced to tear
the plane apart to
body, which was under
TAKE NEWS OF
TRAGEDY BRAVELY
8KOWEOAN, Me
—Mrs. Betty Blake
actress daughter, Mary*
brave’’ today when de
plane crash death at
reached them here.
Mrs. Rogers, here
daughter who is the lead hi
plane play, “Ceiling
Mary retired to their
mediately after hearing of
death.
SERVICES NOT
YET DETERMINED
PONCA CITY. OkhU
(INS)—Mrs. Wiley Poet, Wife
-t.
' ■
m
i m supporting cast which also in-}^611 you ^ sure there wonn
i be any scandal.”
That was at a time when Aimee
Semple McPherson, Los Ahgeles
and distin-
Florence E!-
Mrs. Fredric March
time warrants 10,706.00 jrn‘p!iya;e*7ife“ Jes^Ralph, Fenii- ! evangeI^t’ was vIvidly n thfe news-
1,021.75 I nand Gottschalk and little Marl-j
another burglary is in order,’*
5he informed us. Wo wonder
just what he thought of that
prescription of lead poisoning
we prescribed as a sure cure
for all activities of this pa-
ture.
* * *
Now that the first float has
been pledged for the 1936
Turkey Trot we have a defin-
ite start. Let’s launch our
drive at once to put the 1936
Trot over in big fashion. With
thousands of Centennial vis-
itors in this state next year,
the Trot should prove one of
the biggest drawing cards in
this section. With the proper
cooperation it can be made a
“super’’ attraction. Let’s all
work together for the 193$
Turkey Trot and make it the
biggest and most spectacular
celebration the city of Cuero
has ever staged.
and, C. S. Wofford of Cuero. Three [
children. Mrs. F. C. Proctor. Mrs. ■
J. V. Vandenberge. and Mrs. Wm.]
Howard, with their father, preced- :
ed Mrs. Wofford in death. !
One brother. Elisha Stevens of [
Cuero, thirty two grand children j
and twenty one great grand chil-
dren. also survive.
Mrs. Wofford was a life long
member of the Baptist church, and
was an active worker until the twi-
light years of her tlfe.
Born of that sturdy pioneer stock
which blazed the trails of the early
Southwest, she had lived an active
and useful life, and as a mother,
a neighbor and a friend had won
the devotion of all who knew tier
“To be strong and tru‘>; to lx
generous in praise and appreciation
Of ethers; to impute worthy mo-
tives even to enemies; to give with-
out expectation of return; to prac-
tice humility, tolerance and self-
restraint; to make the best use oi
time and opportunity: to keep the
mind pure and the judgment char-
itable; to extend intelligent sympa-
thy to those in distress; to cultivate
quietness and non-resistance; -o
seek truth and righteousness; to
(See WOFFORD, Page 4)
EXPECT CROWD
AT K. P, MEET
Grand Chancellor to
Speaker of The
Evening.
» Total ......................................'
DISBURSEMENTS
from jury fund ................... ......... ............... t_ <
I---------- Road and Bridge Fund ......... , ...................
Paid^ from General Fund
Paid from Sinking Fund for purchase and redemption bonds
Paid from Sinking Fund for interest, commission.
Paid from Sinking Fund for assessment, fees
Paid- from Building Fund for assessment, fees
Faid from Building Fund for construction, maintenance
exchange
___ j lynne Knowlden, who played Madge
$205,049.60 aS a ChHd in “DavitfCopper-
"Les Miserabies” is a Joseph M.
$ 3 801 25 Schcnck presentation, released thru
90,419.02 ■Unitcd Artists.,
33.193.35
21.000.00 |
19.221.07 j
649.00 i
82.11 |
7,180.70
House Rejects
Senate Revision
of Tax Measure
Total
$175,546.50
Arrangements had been com-
pleted today for the appearance
here (his evening of Judge John W
Funeral Services
Held For Father of
Mrs. John Bass
DEFENDS LOBBY
ACTMTIES
Hopson Says Spending of
Millions Was Neces-
sary.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.—^INS)—
Rejecting the senate’s revision of
its $270,000,000 tax bill, the house
sent the measure to conference.
Before taking this action, the
! house defeated a motion of Rep.
Whit e<D) Idaho, Tnsfructing the
conferees to agree to the senate
amendment repealing the 50 oer
intrepid flyer, was
grief when informed
men today of the
husband.
She was at the hotne^pfe
| L. E. Gray, an intimate triend.
Mrs. Gray said that k
was awaiting word from
ment officials before aal
plans for the burials of'
j aviator.
-----—MM, .
Blames Drinking
For His
KENNETT. Mo.. Aug. 16.-05?®
—Smiling and asserting Uwt« '.‘“T
had been drinking or
have done these thing*.”
i old negro. C. D. Ward, was
1 here today for criminally
I two young girls, sisters.
Highway Patrolmen
Hold Man Here For
Transporting Liquor , by Utilities companies to defeat leg-j
cent silver tax. . -- _ ^
Chairman Doughton of the ways i Mo- *n 1933 About 399
f and means committee, was named I heard the youth repeat a ooirfen-t
1 chairman of the house conference!^00 crime and watch the <
j committee. trap spring, while other htu>dr?da
S3H
, WASHINGTON. Aug.
{Expenditure of millions
, J ....
! islation was held
16.—HNS)— j
of doiiais'^azis To Force Jews
Birdwell, grand chancellor of the j
Knights ol Pythias of Texas and
John Lee Smith, deputy supremo
chancellor and supreme lodge rep
resentative from Texas.
An invitation had been extended j his daughter. Mrs. W. C. Stephens. !nicilt when highway
to all former Knights and pros-‘were held at the Baptist church. ■ here several ,««,» «„ - < .
K11: .!,t - as well as present iRev. A. M. Wester n«.stor of the ‘ employe of a San Antonio whole-•* Justified in spendine as much ■ Arch-Pnest
WAELDER. Tex.. Aue 16. —
Funeral servicees for E D Walker
82. who died here at the home of
pro iw
monti* : < :
the nice'ini'
a high light
d' Ai-J I.odg, to attend
•i. :.:rii promises to' be
in Knight: ol PSthias
necessary tuuay ,
by Howard C. Hopson, head of the j
I The excitement ot rum running- .vast Associated Gas and Electric i
: days was revived here Thursday j system.
: He told the house rules commit-
tee utilities companies would ce
today. Into Modern Ghettos
waited outside the place of
tlon.
ex* rti-
Extortion Attempt
Is Under Probe
First Baptist church officiating sale C0*»P®«V op a charge
Waelder city i franspoi ^ing liquor.
Interment was in
cemeterey. " j The man was making a
-* H' is suridved by one son. Robert j i°r his company which is sellii*e
t*>;- Walker of Dallas, four daughters. : hquor under a Federal permit, and
Mr>. D .1 Gunn ot San Antonio ^i* contention that the transport a
JuAtm Birr fuel! and Mr Smfth Mis w H Cluiss ot Sint on. Mrs tlon of liQtior consigned to licenced
arr- botli to b< beard durum <he John Bass of Cuero and Mr- W c ! houses was legal final 1> won iu«r re-
evening and they are expected to ! Stephens of Waelder. also a mini-- {tease
bring a most impressive mes.-agp to j ber of grand-children
aca:r;t lu re f,,. t| year
An inlonual social hour will
low tlie regular mi+tms.
r BERLIN. Aug. 16.—(IMS'—Fired by j _ _ . « . T ’
ithe highly publicized invasion of, DALLAS, Aug Xw UNB.1— D** r
Berlin staged bv Julius Streicher. | partment of Justice agents tm’&yr
of anti-Semitism. Nazi; took over investigation of the aW
monev as they could efficiently ex- \ officials throughout the Reifch today | tenjPt to extort $300 from TV F.
pend to defeat legislation which accelerated sharply their drive toi^'ea,sori shop superintendent. ofV
*, would 'destroy their equities 1 force all Jews into modem ghettos , toe Dallas Gas Oo.
delivery ^ He estimated the Wheeler-Ray- i patterned after those of the middle ■ A 14-year-old youth and his ;
iiatrolmen
hours an
Antonio whole- • ific*c!
burn bill outlawing holding
Jpanies would have reduced
com - ages.
the As Streicher’s violent attacks up-
■on Jews and upon opponents of the
father were arrested last night by
deputy sheriffs at the spot where
Pearson tossed out a dummy pack-
local Knights
a num-
and several
great-grandchildren
Th*’ liquor howevej. wa> con-
h.s'-a'eri by i *'* tlUro’nu'n.
r
.value of tlie companies equities by
50 per cent oi $6,000,000,000. (Nazi anti-Jew campaign—including;
Congress Would apirropriate any j those of the United states were ( Grilled today, the youth accepted
imount out of the treasury to i carried to nearly every hamlet in full responsbility and said
pretext ttir United Sta’cs in tinm jthe country, officials bore down on j father had nothing to do with thg
of war he .testified. Jewry more sharply than ever. ‘plot. . ?•
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