The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 278, Ed. 1 Tuesday, November 22, 1932 Page: 1 of 4
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VOL. 38—NO. 278
CUERO, TEXAS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1932
FOUR PAGES TODAY
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The American Legion ban-
quet at the city auditorium
holds the spotlight of atten-
tion tonight, and with high
H officials of the Texas Legion
expected to attend, the ban-
quet promises to be a most
J: brilliant affair. State Com-
mander Carl Nesbitt, State
Adjutant Bob Whittaker and
other Legion notables are
numbered among the invited
rpS guests and are expected to
J| bring stirring messages to the
ms local post. The Cuero band
and the Wasserman orchestra
are to furnish musical fea-
tures on a program which
promises to be most interest-
ing. Past banquets of Dinter
Post have wpn fame in South
Texas for their excellence,
and tonight’s affair should
live up to the reputation of
these past events. The ban-
quet is indeed a highlight in
Legion activities in South-
west Texas.
* * *
Cuero’s Good-Will Associa-
tion is proving its worth. New
jnembers are being added
Increased interest is
shown. Cuero business
’men are realizing the true
value of the idea. Visitors
from all parts of this and ad-
joining counties pour into
Cuero on these Good-Will
Days and their visits here are
most profitable for both
themselves and the business
who act as their hosts for
lay. The Good-Will Asso-
has a bright future in
opinion. We believe it is
g to grow in value every
$ionth.
Cream prices advanced dur-
ing the past few days. Egg
jumped to 20 cents per
n. Cream is now worth
and 19 cents with sweet
of course bringing the
price. Just two more lit-
developments which tend
turn the dark clouds back.
%ith the cold weather coming
on, farmers will perhaps have
less cream to sell, but with the
product bringing 3 cents more
per pound than it did a’week
ago cream checks should
show a substantial increase
regardless.
* * *
Thanksgiving dinners are
going to cost a whole lot less
this year than in 1931, and
>wlth turkeys selling at a low
figure the plan to put “a tur-
key on every Texas table
Thanksgiving day” should be
met with hearty approval.
Turkeys are cheaper than
veal at the present time. And
Incidentally, the “flxins” are
much cheaper this year. Yes
sir, these Thanksgiving din-
ners should be real feasts this
year.
* * *
There is quite a bit of talk
in Yoakum and Victoria re-
■garding the football ‘‘play-ofH
which is slated for this week.
Cuero is being discussed as
the “ideal site” for the game.
We can assure officials of both
schools that Cuero will wel-
- come the Bulldogs and Sting-
arees to this city. We too bet
lieve this city the “ideal” sit(e.
Looking at it from a financial
standpoint purely, we
say the game played in Cuer
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TWO KILLED il JUR CRASH
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NORTHERN TURKEY MART WATCHED Plane Hits Tree When
Pilot Attempts To La:
At Wharton Atter
Developments During
Next 36 Hours To Effect
Prices Buyers Believe
Developments in the northern and eastern markets will be
watched with keen interest by turkey growers and buyers to-
day and Wednesday, for future turkey prices are expected to
depend to a great extent upon the Thanksgiving demand. If
the big markets show a good demand for turkeys during these
two days, the peak of the Thanksgiving season, and most of
the turkeys offered are sold, buyers here are of the opinion
President and President-Elect in Conference
prices may advance. Adverse
conditions on the market will
send turkey prices even lower
in the opinion of local market
observers.
Local packers are today
paying 9c at the plant and 8c
on the farm and are taking
all bikLs that* are offered.
The highest price paid this season
was 12c at the plant and 11c on the
farm paid only two days, November
11 and 12, just at the close of
the shipping season for the north-
ern and eastern Thanksgiving
markets.
Turkey growers have been slow to
sell at these prices and in numer-
ous instances have hauled their
birds back to the farm rather than
sell them at the market figure.
Local packers estimate less than
30 per cent of the DeWitt county
crop has been marketed it the pres-
ent time. Usually aproximately 60
per cent of the crop is marketed by
Thanksgiving. This same situation
is said to exist throughout Texas.
Up to November 21, only 1 car of
live turkeys and nine cars of dress-
ed turkeys have been shipped out of
Cuero as compared with 18 cars of
dressed turkeys and three cars of
live turkeys last year at this time.
This does not include several
thousand turkeys purchased by
street buyers and shipped out by
truck. There are approximately two
carloads of dressed birds in storage
here at present at the local packing
houses.
In 1931 a total of 38 cars of dress-
ed turkeys and 5 cars of live turkeys
weie shipped out of Cuero. In addi-
tion truck shipments were
heavier than this season.
ROOSEVELT AND
HOOVER BEGIN
CONFERENCE
Last Minute Preparations
Cmpleted by President
Tuesday Morning.
NEW ANGLES
WHARTON, Tek., Nov. 22.—(U.P.)—W. G.
geologist of Beeville, died in a hospital at Houston
bringing to a total of two. the toll in an airplane
this city’s unlighted airport last night.
The other man killed was E. C. Templeton, Los
geologist, and brother of Robert L. Templeton, track
(Stanford University.
The third member
FIVE INJURED
IN CAR CRASH
LATE MONDAY
A dramatic meeting, unprecedented in the history of
the United States, is shown in this composite photo-
graph, showing President Herbert Hoover and Presi-
dent-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in conference at the
White House on the Question of foreign. war debts.
In accepting the President's invitation to sit in on
the debt deliberations, President-elect Roosevelt made
it clear that the responsibility for any action taken
in the matter at this time mu*t rest solely upon the
shoulders of the present administration.
France and Britain May
Pay; Poland Asks Ex-
tension of Payment.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 22.—(U.P.)
—Last minute preparations were
made by President Hoover for his
war debt conference this afternoon
with President-elect Roosevelt who
was speeding by train from New
York to arrive here about 3:30 p. m.
The Red Room of the White
GIRL ESCAPES
VOODOO DEATH
Negro Cultist Unable to
Find Social Worker Kills
Neighbor.
World War Ace Is
Released on Bond
SAN ANTONIO, Nov. 22.—(U.P.)
t-W. T. POnder, world war air ace,
teday made bond for $4000 under
charges of transporting liquor by
airplane from Mexico and was re-
leased from jail.
Ponder who has been in jail here
since last Friday night when Fed-
eral customs officers forced him to
.DETROIT. Nov. 22—<U.PA —
Robert Harris, negro high priest of a
voodoo cult re-enacted for police| ^and plane je^ immediately for
House has been selected as the Monday the human sacrifice of an-j Worth ,
scene of the conference, the White I other negro on a grotesque altar in 1
House announced shortly before the; the rear of his home.’
meeting was to take pla£e. ’ He then counfounded ^uthori
At the same time United Press! by saving only
PLAYOFF GAME
BE IN VICTORIA
Patti Welder Field to be
Scene of Battle Friday
Evning.
miscalculation
dispatches from abroad indicated
that Great Britain and France have
decided to pay their December 15th
debt installments in event the
United States declined to grant
saved the life of Miss Gladys Smith,
21 yearold white welfare worker,!
whom he had chosen as his
sacrifice to ‘ Allah.” .
“I was preordained centuries ago I
j to offer the life of a human to Ai- j
•(“YOUTHS FACE
5 CHARGES TODAY
The Yoakum High Bulldogs and
Victoria Stingarees are to settle
their score in Victoria Friday even-
ing at 8 o’clock. The two teams bat-
tled to a 6 to 6 deadlock in Yoakum
last Friday afternoon and this week’s
| game will serve as the play-
j off to decide the district efiampion-
ship. Victoria school officials in
I session with Yoakum high author-
I ities here Monday choose to “stick
j to the rulefc ” a rule whereby high
' school teams meet on an alter-
Cuero Woman Suffers Pain-
ful Hurts Rushing to
Bedside of Son.
DETAILS UNKNOWN
Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Callison
Among Those In-
jured.
• -r
Mrs. C. F. Callison of this city was
suffering with a broken arm and
other injuries, her husband was suf-
fering with painful body bruises,
and three other Cuero motorists
were nursing minor injuries as a re-
l suit of an auto crash near La Feria
; which occurred as Mrs. Callison and
I her aged husband were being rush-
| ed to the bedside of a son seriously
ill in La Feria.
Other members of the party, Mr.
and Mrs. J. E. Benton and daughter,
Miss Marie Benton escaped with less
serious injuries. It was feared
however that Mrs. Benton had suf-
fered a broken rib. Mrs. Benton is a
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Callison.
Details of the crash had not been
learned here Tuesday. Finley Ben-
ton who left Tuesday morning for
La Feria declared the crash occur-
red somewhere near La Feria Mon-
day night.
The party was enroute to La
Feria, he said, in response to a
telephone message to the effect that
Carl Callison was seriously ill at his
* v*
fated party, C. S.
Los Angeles, was aaq£
in a hospital here.
All three were
geophysical expe„ _
has been working to-
vicinity for the past **'
the Union Oil Company
nia.
Lienesch is head of
pany’s aviation &
piloted the plane at the
crash.
Th^ crash occurred
three * returned from
pleasure flight and
land after nightfall,
struck a tree ajt the
hurtled to the ground.
Farmers who rushed
found Templeton rtragT
er two men pinned
The plane did not
postponement. . --------------------------- , ,
The December payment of $124.-1 lah.” said Harris. “The rites, said I Rich Youth and Poor Youth ( nating home and home schedule.
000.00 including principal and in-: had to hit him with an iron bar Charged in Chicago’s | Victoria £s entitled to the game due j a eria ome.
terest for all of the allied debtors, i and then kill him with a silver dirk. Most Brutal Murders. !to the fact that the last meeting ofl
A morning cabinet meeting was I “I planned to sacrifice the Smith j __ J vhe two teams was in Yoakum. j pv j
held today. Vice-President Curtis I girl, but I cculdnt find her, so Ij CHICAGO. Nov. 22. (U.P.'—A Ybakum school officials, had War Ofl r\ats
left in less than half an hour and j grabbed James, who s another un-j poor youth and a rich .one faced ! cept«l Cuero as the site for the |
much j other members soon straggled out. j believer, and carried him into the: ^eparate charges today <j>f having I game, but this plan failed to meet
! While it was presumed war debts | altar.” j committed murders which police j the favor of the Victoria school au-
It was estimated in 1931 that ajwere discussed, no members would! James was James Smith, a negro j ?a’ld were am0ng the most atrocious j thorities. The game therefore will
total of 185.000 turkeys were mark-! offer confirmation. j neighbor. At midnight Saturday j in the city-s recent history. i be played on the flood lighted field
eted in DeWitt county weighing j
1.665,000 pounds. Of this number
approximately 85.000 birds were
marketed in Cuero.
There are two turkey dressing
plants in Cuero, two at Yoakum and
one at Yorktown. all in this county.
In addition the Poultry Producers
Association of Texas is pooling cars
here for shipment and there are
five or six local street buyers in thej
market.
Most growers find it to their ad-
vantage to sell to the established
packing houses. Numerous instances
have been reported where independ-
ent truck buyers have contracted to
buy turkeys at a certain price and
refused to take them when the
night Harris brought him into the;
and Bags 26 Monsters
in One Night’s Drive
. _ w , , t The poor vouth, James Varecha.; Patti Welder hfeh school
!.—(U.P.) j altar room in the back of .his n whp twLv escaped from an j Charges against two Yoakumj
the fifth j house. Harris and his wife. Bertha, pleaded not guilty tlo charg- ‘players filed by Superintendent Dy-j
sart of Victoria were cleared up and
WASHINGTON. Nov.
—Poland today became
European nation to ask relief from j donned fantastic ceremonial robes,
war debt payments due the United! and then Harris hit Smith with an;
States on December l!kh. A pay- automobile axle, which was the
inent of $3,202,980 fe due from Po-1 prescribed “iron bar.”
land next month. j “Then we pushed Smith upon the :
--—■ . , | altar and made him stand there
WASHINGTON. No£ 22.— 'U.P) I with his hands upraised until thf|
—Two distinct problems arising | hands of the clock pointed to mid-
| from notes written to the State De- I right." said Harris. “Then I plung-)
partment by four Eur6pean powers rd a silver knife in his heart.”
confront President Hoover and Gov- | Upon being taken to a cell Harris!
emor Roosevelt today‘as they face ! exclaimed:
es of murdering Frank Jordan in a
holdup. Police said that previously fhe two players declared eligible in
he confessed not only to killing of ever.v sense of the word.
Jordan but to shooting at least; Friday night’s game in Victoria
seven -other men and to attacking’, will decide the district champion-
at least two girls. | ship. Both teams have games this
.The other boy. Charles Arnold. 16. j week, the Bulldogs meeting the Hal-
stared at the floor when he appear- lettsville Brahmas and the Sting-
each other in „
White House.
conference at the
A CORRECTION
market dropped. On the other hand; The services at Grace church
local packers have lived up to all > Wednesday evening begin at 6 :45 in-
purchase contracts regardless of j stead of 7:15 as announced previous-
price fluctuation and are taking all ly.
birds offered at prevailing market j --
prices.
“That's all right'. Allah will get me
out of jail.”
Miss Smith seemed unperturbed
at her narrow escape as Detroit's ■
first white voodoo victim , i
"He threatened me. but I paid not
ed in court and heard a grand jury’s
recommendation, that he be held on
a charge of beating to death hfS
step-mothers mother. MrS. Ellen
Saxe, 60
Varecha. accused of carrying on
a, reign of terror on the South side,
had up attorney.
Arnold, whose father lives in
arees the Beeville Trojans, but both
are overwhelming favorites to cop
the respective contests with ease.
attention,'' she said. “We welfare Riverside /and is a moderately
workers are accustomed to such .^seaUhy manufacturer, was repre-
i threats.’
nted by high priced attorneys.
• Mrs. W. B McClung has taken up
The Record's suggestion that
Cuero business' - houses launch a
“rat extermination” campaign and!
reports 18 big rats -killed Monday
night the first night fo her 'drive.”
Mohe merchants should join in the
movement
If every merchant would
launch aj ‘“rat extermination”
campaign and get the results
Mrs. W. B. McClung owner of
the McClung Grocery, obtain-
ed Monday night Cuero would
have fewer rats than Hamlin
had after the Pied Pieper’s
visit.
Mrs. McClung’s first night
hunt netted twenty-six pig
rats, several of them wood rats
capable of doing untold dam-
age. Traps and other baits
were used to capture the
rodents,
If every merchant! in Cuero
would exterminate 2$ rats the
rodent population inj this city
would be materially reduced
and damage caused • by rats
cut considerably.
We suggest other merchants
take up the campaign.
“Alway*( in
‘ Makes Kg
Monday
A large and
Monday evening was
of the most amusing
given here in some
Catholic ladies
Trouble." The city
taxed to its capacity, '
comers being fa
rear of the big
time dance followed.
Every character v
the play was ably
W. N. Arnold,
taken by Gideon Dreier,
Miller. Miss Lillian1
Prause, Miss Evelyn
Hebert, Leon Boidt, Avia
and “Blondie” L
The play will
on Saturday night, this
Lindenau hall of the
club under the auspic
denau Community
Ben Prause will
an old time and mod
lowing the Saturday
ancc.
*♦♦♦♦♦*04
♦ NEWS
WASHINGTON. NorJ
—Speaker John N.
predicted the passage of
! revenue bill during tb|
short session of CongreMCT
Today is Gamer’s 64th -
and he said he intended
it by getting back into
Representative Britten,
of Illinois, made a
ment yesterday. His
lowed a conference with
j dent at the White House.
Robins’ Condition
Blamed on Treatment
Received in Russia
FASHLIGHT DEPUTIES GET THEIR MAN
‘Depression Flower’’
Is Social Fad
ASHEVILLE N C. Nov 22 —
(U P )—The theory that Raymond
Robins who recained his memorv
dramatically yesterday was a victim '
wcfyl-d j of the terrible strain lie underwent
J in Russia during and shortly after
, , , , ,fthe world war. was expressed to-
would draw from a hundred !dav by hLs wife
to two hundred dollars more j Robins who had b^n sqfferinp
than if played either in ViC- from amnesia when found in a
toria or Yoakum. Bring the mountain village near here las'
Friday after being absent for 80
game m Cuero we say. j days, served in Russia for a year
* -Y- *
Like the Northwest Mounted —
they got their man. A flashlight,
a loud voice, a finger nail hie
and a boulder the size of a
watermelon were the:’ weapons
Flashlight deputies they were
anti shine tl.ev did.
There w -s Harry Pm man. the
man wi'h the fl.tshhch’ —
Ralph Abd. the poss'essor of the
loud voice—Bill Hedges. sole
owner of the finger.'nail 'file
and Rufus Smith, the man'with
'.ha- boulder
artied bv a shot as they
stood in the Quality C mfe, -
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tionery. they were even mo: e
startled a lew moments later as
Night Marshal Adams rushed
in from the rear of the .-tore,
his hand bleeding his gun
smoking. s.
I've just shot a' a n- gr •
but he got awav when I tell ar/
rut mv hand, said nigh'
marshal You bov vet out 'her-
\:n tlie ;tlif- and round hit: u
is hiding out there . -
where."
That was the order —
Putman got a flashlight
Abel had hLs loud voice—Smith
* * ~
got his boulder and Bill <eur-
lr.ee alone his finger nail hie
held in hs coat pocket like a
. t
Probing around in the dar.k-
i r.-s.~ in back of the Reuse drug
•Ore Putman flashed trie light’
into a .shallow box. The negro
*ed up Who was scared the'
* * *
' Let him run. I would like to
ike a shot at him,” veiled Bill
nth his finger nail file- clenched
ST LOUIS Nov. 22.—|-<U.P.)—The
"depression flower” is l the latest
social fad here, though it may not
be found in apv floral shop.
To make this flower, put a small
piece of coal or coke in a bowl. Over
this pour six tablespoons of water.
W
.rock
Seniors Advised
Not to T*
NORTHAMPTON, MMX.
—1U P.) —Smith Collet*
have been advised b|T
William Allan Neilson aat %
paying jobs next year uttlok
actually need them.
“Everybody who hope* for
next June is not going to
1 or
P.'m.
or th
six tablespoons of salt, three table-
spoons of bluing and two or three'said -j thinJc many of ;
drops of mercurochromp j to stand aside and let
Soon a flower having all the tints j a chance who have no
A *
■ negro, we
hi4 voice
oek. Bid
red and blue will begin to take
bfef
cc
gun on him” said
with the flash-
Sa.u .inn u.t- Trllsl-
And ;he flash li
had again gotten t
; snane. It will resemble Icolored moss
i or a rose.
The reaction is simply that of
the salt and water." according to H
E. Wiedermann St. Louis chemist j there were a “great i
who “invented* the flower. Jjobs which need to fee
hold body and soul togethq^
perhaps have to support
ents.”
He did not, however,
girls to be idle, reminding
a
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Howerton, J. C. The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 278, Ed. 1 Tuesday, November 22, 1932, newspaper, November 22, 1932; Cuero, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1089698/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Cuero Public Library.