The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 18, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 23, 1938 Page: 1 of 6
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A NEWSPAPER REFLECTS US COMMUNITY
SUNDAY, JANUARY 2J.
WMAN
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at up.
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We atre anxious to learn the
General Chair-
man of the 1938 Turkey Trot,
and understar d that the an-1
nouncement if to probably be
made this week. Much con-j
stderatton has been given the i Fifteen Separate In-
choice we ha\ e been inform- j stances Reported to
general chairman
a great responsibil-
he should consider
appointment an honor, j Heavy Property Loss Re-
will have
ity, but
Talk DISREGARD OF
U.S.FLAGBY
JAPS CUED
Anti-Japanese Cartoons on Exhibit
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Hong Kong.
GERMANS SUFFER
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Hf'f-CHUKWO t HsrftVffy
,,w. li. VMH>Y6
There are no , many, citizens j ported; Looting
who would be trusted with; Described.
the job. We feel sure that the!
gereral will find! HONO KONG Jan
Cuero citizens willing to lecdl™"" s'par,te lnst*"“5 ^ ,ils-
a hand in putting over the de-j JapaIMse troom
Trot, and hopej january i were outlined today in1
that every citzen called upon!reports reaching here from Gener-*
will respond V rith enthusiasm, j alissimo Chiang Kai-Shek aban-
3f. if. .doned capital.
Most of these incidents occurred
American flag by
in Nanking since
OIL COMPANIES
FOUND GUILTY
OF CONSPIRACY
'
Sixteen Oil Companies
And Thirty Officials
Guilty.
NO VEROICT WILI
ACCEPTED BEFORE 8 A.
M. TODAY SAYS P
The fate of Jesse Farris Newman, former
PRICE FIXING school football star, (and now a rookie member of
>f a Jury of eleven fi
urday night.
At 11 o’clock the jury had not delivered it's verdict.
High
the San
Regulated Price of
oline, Jury
Finds.
Antonio Missions, la^ in the hands of
ers and one business man here Sati
% iPP
MADISCiN. Wis., Jan. 22.—(INS)
After hearing the case for nearly -,
four months, a jury of small busi-,
merchants todav[
oil companies and
of government
i f te
r five o'clock, with
attorney
nessmen and
I found 16 major
i 30 officials guilty
j charges they conspired to fix gaso-
line prices.
Arguments were begun shortly a
District, Attorney Howard P. Green being the first
beard in the case.
He was followed by attorneys for the defense, includ-
ing State Senator Franklin Spears of $an Antonio and Rich-
ard Waldeck of Cuero.
A verdict of guilty would call for
-
V
■Jj
sentence of dea
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*Jn
In reply to many inquiries,!
jre state that issuance of au
tomobile licen >e has not be-
gun, and will not begin until
some time in February. The
-^new license plates have been
received but the tax collector
U not ready x> start the big
Job of getting them out to
automobile owners. Auto own- TJSZTFJSSZZS!*
the reports said, when American
(missions were forcefully entered
by the Nipponese.
German property at Nanking,
however, was reported to have suf-
fered most from Japanese burning
and looting activities, while the
damages sustained gy British prop-
erty were described as “extraordi-
narily slight.”
If these reports, which emanated
One of the art works of Jack Chen shown in New York
- the electric chair, a term of life in the penitentiary or a
da cartoons against Japan, by Jack Chen,
one-time foreign minister of China, are to
bs shown in various countries to arouse anti-Jap-
P
son
ropsfan
)D Of t C
anese feeling. Here is one of several being shown {j whom were among the
at the American Contemporary Art gallery* in New
York,
indicted in July, 1936. the cor- 0f years not less thin five years, according to the charge
porations and officials. some of, Di.strict Judge J. P* Pool.
“Wno’s (
; Who” of the oil world, were ac-
The court room was packed throughout the day
—Central Brest
i cused by the government of vioiat- spectators standing in the aisle. Listeners leaning
! ing the Sherman anti-trust act.
t
cw are given until April to
secure their ifew plates with-
out penalty, jo there’s ample|TDkyo-
time toft. * £ tost tw * will
probably welcome the oppor-
tunity to hoi i on to those
few dollars a little longer,
r * t *
MORE RELIEF
FUNDS ASKED
Convict Shot In
Attempted Break v
Dies Saturday
ACCUSED MAN
' COLLAPSES
as Newman took the stand Saturday afternoon and told
S«VoTtnJCi7fuSZen^lan exceptionally calm voice the events leading to and
the alleged attack. I
Newman at no time appeared uneasy and told a
alties of a year’s imprisonment,
$5,000 fine, or both. ‘
The defendants were , * charged
I with having adopted, without au-] forward stoyv
I thorization, certain policies and lurwdXU awry.
they may lead to a new diplomatic
“incident” between Washington and 4
on the book,
Religion” and
TOKYO,
Jan. 22.—(BIS)—Japan’s
parliament resumed its sessions to-
day and was informed by Premier
PrinCe Fumimaro Konoye that
LANSING. Kan.. Jan. 22.—<INS)— !
Clifford Ottinger, 22 year old con-j .,
vict, died early today—the re<*n»ri i " atlier
victim of the‘unsuccessful ''break?’,
attempted by 8 prisoners Thurs-f
day night at the state penitentiary]
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22'-(INS)- j here* , j
Unable to contribute any more! Ottinger was shot by guards whoj A habeas
jj|. their als0 killed the leader, Cecil Thron-j
1 practices of the defunct NRA pe
troleum code, expanding
3
As he left the stand there was
Mayors of Sixty Large
Cities Ask..Relief. Work
Be Broadened.
Charged’ Withjvantage.
I tending them to their
and ex- courtroom. J. Franklin Spears then announced
own ad-
had rested.
Son s Death in Seri-
ous Condition.
It was the contention of the de-
[ fense that the government en-1
I courage the buying programs tor
j stabilize tfie • industry’ during and
a murmur over
the
Dr. Gerald King was the first witness for the
Dr. King’s testimony purely sci«
Otto Buchhorn, 6uero dfaftsm
fort worth, Jan. 22.—(ins)—] after the days of the' NRA c(xle in. Qf the SChool athletic field and the territory
corpus hearing for! 1935 and 1936.
Dr. W. L McLeod has1 not yet in sight.
end of the conflict with Qhina k -■» £££ TLlSLSSi ***»
r launched liis feerles of lectures
‘My Return to
is scheduled to
deliver the second of the se-
ries '-at the Presbyterian
church this evening. We are
certain J^iat he will welcome
presenc; at
ices at your own
wight, join
their service.
In a speech before the Diet, Kon-
oye declared:
“Termination of the conflict is
ed upon congress to broaden its]
work relief program.
In a report submitted to the
still far distant. It will be a long I MI1&te committee on unemployment,
time before a settlement is reach-
ed.
h™nlri -rrfe
must be prepared to make sacrifices will ^ necessary for WPA not only-
greater than any
tonight’s fore.”
made bereto-
your
service, and dtill more certair,
that Dr. McLiod’s talk will be-Report Heavy Lost
not only highly interesting! |n Loyalist Ranks
but instructive and .uplifting
as well. If there are no serv-1 Hendaye. Francrf-8panish Border
cities from coast to coast todav call-' convict, Carnes Addington. 20. The; in® release f'onf jail on charges ne.
dtlw from coast to coast today call fiye surrender-! Whd his son. David. 42. was halt-
, ed suddenly today when he col-;
__ _ ! lapsed from a heart attack. j
It was later revealed by court at-;
, taches it was the third he had suf- i
j fered since he surrendered last i
night following the shooting. j
Young Haynes was fatally shot! GlOOIT^y
as he stepped from an elevator in a
downtown’ office building.,His fath-
er who told officer he had waited
their consensus was:
1. Relief continues
to be • a se-
TO ASK CHAIR
FOR ANDERS
to maintain its present program but 1
to “expand." •
3. Most cities are
every cent they possibly can at
present in meeting the costs of di-
rect relief and for the local share
of WPA programs.
4. The recession has increased re-
contributing G-Men Piece
Last Bits of Gruesome
Evidence. *
Together fol> his boy minutcs
® the shooting, surrendered
UGHT RAINS
TO CONTINUE
Week-End Is
Predicted by Weather
Mfcn.
the field, was questioned regarding the chart and
tell the jury the approximate distance bf certain homes j
vicinity from the spot where the attack was alleged
taken place.
Douglas Benton
338 Schley Avenue,
testified that he had known the prosecutrix, Miss
for some two and a half or three years. He testified
had a date with her and that he visaed her and “Iot
I Continuation
inclement
j weather which, has brought light
church to-'Jan- 22— (INS.)—A smashing coup l^f rolls substantially,
jin which 3,000 Loyalist troops were |nr
ST. PAUL, Minn.. Jan. 22.—(INS)— years and it was nnlv recently had i
! Insuring swift justice for Peter thjpy became reconciled.
Presbyterians in|asserfed to have been killed
Folks down
*
in the
I wounded on Spain’s Huesca front;
j was claimed by the insurgent head-
Valleyiquarters at Saraffosa.
. . ^ | The rebel headquarters reported
have started a movement for that 37 insurgent planes ‘had
bombed 100 government trucks
loaded with Loyalist troops on the
Huesca sector.
the creation jof a new state,
Texas,
ten th
i
“South
that when
Texas, ot hej own
became one
States, back
reserved the
It is recalled
e Republic of
volition
of the United
|n the 1840’s she
right to divide
Texas into a; many
states when knd if
fit to do so.
five
as
she saw
The matter hai
been broached from time to
time through the years but
nothing has come of it so far
As a matter c f fact, Texas is
too large, anl her interests
too diverse, for an unit gov-
ernment to dominate the en
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tire domain,
hand, there
urge against
Heavy Damage
Caused by Rain
GREENVILLE. Jan. 22 —(INS)—
Damage resulting from a five-inch
rain that tied up highway and rail-
road traffic for hours, and flooded
numerous houses and buildings, will
amount to hundreds of dollars, of-
ficials said today.
The total precipitation for the
twenty-four hour period measured
5.16 inches. More than four inches
of this fell in a space of three
hours.
ROWER SHOW
TO BESTAGED
Spring Show Planned
Along Ambitious Lines
Record Informed.
! Anders, confessed kidnap-murderer
j of Charles S. Ross, J. Edgar Hcovet j
| today pieced together the last bMr.J
! of evidence against him and pro- j
pared to send him to Chicago—and ;
i the electric chair.
So conclusive is the ease dee’ar- j
ed to be against the ruthless killer, ; Southern
supported as it is by his 27 page
offi-
prior to
at the
: sheriff's office shortly afterwards.
\ Haynes divorced wife said her (rains to this city and section dur-
son had not seen his father for 12; jPg the oast forty-eight hours, was
predicted for the week end.
Overcast- skies will bring light
j rainfall this afternoon and even-
ing weather men said.
Some sections of Texas reported
down-pours Saturday, with Green-
ville suffering considerable dam-
age from flood waters caused by a
heavy rain in the city.
rainfall of, any consequence
DcWitt county
up.
San
Benton was asked.
TO CARRY ON
FILIBUSTER
“Are you a married man,’
“I have been married.”
“Were you married when you had Ihis date.”
“I hadn’t gotten a divorce,” Bentdn declared.
He said that the girl knew he was married because
talked about it.”
Victor Sauer, Qalveston soldier a*d a former
Gonzales county, said that he had kf
I
tnown
k
A flower show, the first of its, kind
to be held in Cuero. will be staged
democrats To
Form ‘.‘Last-Ditch*’
Batallion.
confession, that government
cials said he might be tfied. con-
victed and sentenced to death by.
the end of next week. WASHINGTON. Jan. 22.—dNSl—,
: A thirteen jnan “last-ditch" b?.tal-|
No
was reported in
Saturday.
That, however, will be at the on-
Mission' Times
Has Splendid Edition
| tion of the prosecutors. If the de- ?on of southern. Demoe ats avals'
early In the spring, according to an-j partment of justice requests it. formed in the senate today to car-
The Record publisher has just'
nouncement by Mrs. T. O. Buchel. Ander's case will be taken direct- ry on the filibuster against the artti- j had the privilege of examining the
general chairman.
The show is being planned along
ambitious lines. and the entire fQro a commissioner,
county will be invited to co-operate
in making it a success. It will be
staged at Proctor Memorial Hall.
ly before the Federal grand jury in lynching bill.
Chicago without having him appear "I am not superstitious about the
for a preliminary examination he- number 13' which was the totalj
at our meeting,” said Senator Tom of Texas' best weekly newspapers.
; splendidly
.: edition of
edited 68-page annuaj-
The Mission Times, one’*
Miss Schne
four years.
“Did you have any dates with her?” Speaxs
“Yes sir.” j 4
“Did you ever love her up and plky with her.”
“Yes sir,” Sauer replied.
Henry Mayne, Deputy Constable,
er-in-law_fi>Mihe defendant, testified
dance on the night the attack was
and that he saw Newman and the
his attention was directed to the girl
floor were “sorta patting on a floor
and formerly
,t he was
ieged to have
dancing. He
cause two
ow.” He did L
that one of the girls was Miss Schneider at the time, he
but learned her name later.
Mayne further testified that he saw Newman and 1
5
prosecutrix return to the dance and noticed not
His confession of the kidnaping Connally <D> Texas, lead- of Dix-j The edition was brought out on I Uftl-
of Ross and the murder of Ross ies rebellion against the bill t° the opening day of the Fifth An~
and Anders accomplice. James At- have khe Federal government com-, ua[ Tcms citrus pjeSta and fo.
It will be a show for all those who wood Gray win ^ pre5entpd tn the bat lynchings.
I
linatic
on he admitted he saw the del
On the othei
is a sentimental |
dismembering
Predict* General
Business Upturn
love flowers as well as those who
grow flowers. Prizes will be offered
g-and -jury. District Attorney
We are going to carry on tJUTa cpses attention ,«on the great m-
for different floral
as well as specimen flowers
ferns.
Mrs. Buchel states that
will be invited from Yoakum
Michael L. Igoe then mav ask
arrangements j an imrnpdiate trial* Presentation of. and to the countn-.thnt thus unebn-
ar.cl; evidence, it was said.
' take more than three or four days, pugnant to
entries;___^ passed.
should not stitutfpnal bill, which
the states.
is So
and
the largest Slate in the Union.]—Predicting a general business2UP-
a'nd a practi cal uf-ge against |turn- b*11!""111 1
.. . , , dent, of the XJ. S.
the increase ! cost of state
government to be
You and I, fiear reader, will
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—(INS.) Yorktown and from all the comnm-
be gone long before Texas
Is divided.—Nordheim View.
FARM LOAN MEETING
Special To The \ Record
YORKTOWN
F. Fairless. pr*sl-
Steel Corporation,
today outlined a© $80,000,000 ex-
divided. pansion for Subsidiary Industries.
In a statement read before the
j Senate Unemployment Committee
by a committee counsel. Fairless
painted an optimistic picture for
all business and predicted the up-
j swing is already underway because
of depleted inventories.
nities throughout the coi^
Open? Classes A
City Auditorium
nL
Italian Conquest of
j- Abyssinia Will Be
Given Recognition
fnr* fight and demonstrate to*tbe scmfo‘dustrv of the Rio Grande Valley.*
promotion of this edition
‘ ‘ T. : Cook justifies the
catinot- be recognition accorded him by fellow-
* ' j publishers in electing him president
We refuse to take arv hlatn^.for of the South Texas Press Associa-
te one of the outstand-
young newspaper^ men in the
state. The Times edition presents
a graphic story of the \fagic Val-
holdine up other legislation.
Re-
I sponsibility fop arranging the leg-
i islative program rests with the
1 DcnyocraTic lieplers If they ehoose
so
In t-hc
Editor Joe
taon.
ing
On cross exam
/liss Schneider, Mr^. Ed Heisler and
talking a short time later and that Ijfiss Schneider
ing. He told Distri
ing about those clothes and I heard
Herman
that “the girl
him say that if
what she’s crying about I’ll pay for them.
i <
_ consider this hill so importMn iby and Its (eil-nis crop in scores of
. „ ^_jItlc. pH-, that it must delay other ,measuj|^.* written articles and editorials
inn. ! Iris I * ' ...... ... ________
LONDON
Minister Neville Chamhrrlain ha.
decided that Great B-imin wit!
Jan. 22 —M. F.
Mueller was elefcted president of t,!ie
Farm Loan Assxiation at their an-
SECRET BAN
Mrs. J. Heaton announces the
opening of her spring dancing
classes at the city auditorium on recognize the ■ Italian « rr.-vuest r-
Tuesday apd Friday afternoon's
i after completing a most successful
winter tqrm.
She is organizing new classes and
offering new work.
V
afternoon's, Abvssinia—but at a priee.
The price, it was l.-arni-d,
will be:
'n’cht
that is up to them.
Four Officers Die
In Auto Accident
‘IPhnsi*
MANILA
• {cs'vairy. .
v-tanfl-' State j arpiy v'erc killed hero today Agrict^hlrr. •
P l. Jan
officer' of
the
1
7—An Antrlo-ltahau uno<
Among its editorial contributors are
Senator Tom Connally. Governor
James V. Allred, Milton H. West,
congressmen from the 15th District,
t Victor Schpffclmayer. agricultural no m(>re than any
editor of tile Dallas News and J.
United* Me Doha kl, Texas Commissioner’
He denied'hearting Newman say,
marry her.’
Miss Schneiderj had previously testified that her
were torn during her struggle with Newman.
Thomas “Bunk” Brantley told from the
marry her,
witness
of attending the dance and seeing Newman and
neider there. He dkj not see them lea^e the clubhouse
if he noticed
*them return, he stated! When asked
unusual when the
y
nual meeting,
president, E. O
treasurer
Mueller.
The
G. E
LONDON.
G. E. Brandt, vice- British government .has established
Schiwetz, secretary- a secret ban on shipment erf arms to
directors are M F.! Japan from any part of the British
Jan. 22.—(INS)—The| Such new and popular fiall room
me on Mediterranean problems
!» fo'
Scheurich and E. A. Gohlke.
2—Italy's participation nr
Su.'-ie power pact' for European .mpn e-
ree are ment.
....... . , r ' 8uch a pact, to be - framedg hy
Brandt. August empire, it was stated on reliable The children will be prepared tn Chamberlain, would include. Britain
France, Italy, and Germany.
steps as the Big Apple
Q.. truckin', and the Ja
being offered.-
. the
nt)x)r
ut an aiitonv-hile acrident.
] < The, yi^ad Ca pt. Sun rt -M
ahs. Cafit. George V.
Bev-
Eb.rhaitlf
, s ^ ..mm 11
Firs* llinit .Milton Aklen and first The makr-Up and mechanical ex-
Lieur Hen y B Cmswell Home ad- ceilence of the pages would be a
cires'e^- were• not available immed- credit to aiiy paper published in
that they entered the club house and
motion on the othert side of the dance hall about eight
saw Miss Schneider, Newman,
artmnd that he
j authority today.
take part
1938 Turkey Trot.
The i#uq is:, liberally patronized j minutes later, and _
rrxr i*^. s._____
hear what was beihg said, Brahtley [testified.
lately.
Texas.
when he came in?
returned he declared, '‘they were
ther coupfe that would come in.”
that he noticed *
Did you notice anything unusugl about the
Did he appear to be scratched
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